Allow Estate Managers to Schedule Region Restarts
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Signal Linden
As an estate manager (EM) I would like to set up a recurring schedule (Daily, weekly, etc.) for my regions to restart so that I do not need to restart them manually.
Background
Quite a few estate managers are manually restarting their regions every day to reduce the pain from memory leaks. It's not uncommon for real-time simulation servers, such as dedicated game hosts, to provide a method to schedule regular restart times, often daily.
Solution
Add a form to schedule automatic estate restarts to the estate management floater.
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Signal Linden
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An initial version of this feature has been released. Estate managers can now configure automatic region restarts via the region debug console, instructions are here:
We will look at implementing a region panel UI exposing this feature in the future.
Rockridge Constantine
Signal Linden Thanks 😊
Vanity Bonetto
I am using smartbots as a workaround right now. With almost 800 regions to manage, we have scheduled weekly restarts on weekends and our bot is doing them. Works great. But yes, this would be much better and it would save some L$ as well.
Send Starlight
I noticed the region_schedule command in the Region Debug console doesn't show any scheduled events for the upcoming Wednesday (in my case) for the restarts issued by LL automatically every week. And, I was wondering if you can make it so region_schedule could show those events and even cancel them so that we can replace them with our own scheduled reboots. For example, if I wanted the following Sunday at 7 AM SLT to be the actual reboot day for patches.
RavieDragon SLSGC
So while this is a good idea, what's the actual plan on fixing the actual problems, you know the memory leaks? Again, this is a nice change, but what would be nicer is the bugs fixed in the first place.
Send Starlight
I love this idea, thank you so much.
Signal Linden
We've started working on this, initially there will just be a region console command to set the restart schedule.
Rockridge Constantine
Signal Linden Thank you
Toothless Draegonne
Signal Linden Would it be possible to integrate this in with existing lindenrolls somehow? Either by indicating "A lindenroll happens on this day anyway", or maybe
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lindenrolling a region if it's had a restart in the last day or two and there isn't a server update to apply.Kathrine Jansma
Signal Linden Would asking for a 'restart ban period' be a reasonable addition, e.g. to protect (recurring) events like live performances etc. from being impacted by sudden automatic restarts?
Signal Linden
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SAV Kidd
very good idea! I hope it will come soon ♥
BreeziMarie Resident
This would be amazing.
Kadah Coba
Is needing to reboot a region to resolve issues that common of a problem?
I think I've only ever had to reboot mine less than once a year over the past 12 years.
Toothless Draegonne
Kadah Coba Depends on how busy the region is. For most places, the weekly lindenrolls are probably enough. For particularly busy spots with a lot of arrivals/departures, once per day or two might be necessary to keep odd glitches at bay.
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