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The Secrets of Downtime
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Ivy Romanova
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-07-06 11:10:51 UTC
Everyday ,
starting at 11:00 and lasting for 15 minutes to half an hour
the tranquility goes down for "maintenance"

I wonder what are the server farm techies doing during those few minutes
Must be like watching hamsters on coffee running around in circles lol



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Othran
Route One
#2 - 2012-07-06 11:17:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Othran
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Everyday ,
starting at 11:00 and lasting for 15 minutes to half an hour
the tranquility goes down for "maintenance"

I wonder what are the server farm techies doing during those few minutes
Must be like watching hamsters on coffee running around in circles lol






Maintenance is all routinely scripted - apart from patch deployment which requires a unique script.

Edit - server is in London, game devs are in Iceland where its Friday and midsummer. Scripts 4tw I feel P
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#3 - 2012-07-06 11:18:20 UTC
Downtime is when CCP moves their freighters out of Jita to avoid getting ganked.
Riyal
invidious Squid
#4 - 2012-07-06 11:20:20 UTC
They switch everything off and on again to fix any problems.

In hindsight my post should have had more psssshhhh
Mark Androcius
#5 - 2012-07-06 11:22:17 UTC
Othran wrote:
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Everyday ,
starting at 11:00 and lasting for 15 minutes to half an hour
the tranquility goes down for "maintenance"

I wonder what are the server farm techies doing during those few minutes
Must be like watching hamsters on coffee running around in circles lol






Maintenance is all routinely scripted - apart from patch deployment which requires a unique script.

Edit - server is in London, game devs are in Iceland where its Friday and midsummer. Scripts 4tw I feel P


I don't know about the scripted part, sometimes the server goes off way past 11:00 and comes back up just 5 minutes or less later, a script would have been much more strict, 11:00 AM, bam offline, no matter what.

Unless of course the script is failing at those times and someone has to come in and do it manually.

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Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-07-06 11:26:29 UTC
what you complaining about... for all srs players, downtime is your allotted sleep for each day

They basically gave you a lie-in and you are complaining?

COME AT ME BRO

I'LL JUST BE DOCKED IN THIS STATION
Cutter Isaacson
DEDSEC SAN FRANCISCO
#7 - 2012-07-06 11:48:55 UTC
I'm loving downtime these days, pretty sure one day it only lasted about 6 or 7 minutes. Compare that with the average downtime of 70 minutes or so back in 2005 Shocked and that wasn't even on patch days.

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Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#8 - 2012-07-06 12:03:49 UTC
Even in 2009 it was close to the full hour most of the time then gradually they've managed to decrease it. probably after they retired Scotty the Docking Manager.

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rofflesausage
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-07-06 12:09:48 UTC
Phugoid
Absolute Order XL
Absolute Honor
#10 - 2012-07-06 12:11:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Phugoid
DT's time, works out good for me, cuz soon after I leave for work. But once we turn the clock back, it'll be an hour ealier.

Tho, I was surprised that DT is really only 20 mins at the most.

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pussnheels
Viziam
#11 - 2012-07-06 12:17:27 UTC
There is somewhere deep in the archives a post that explains all what happens during very creative and a great read sadly i can t find it anymore

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Anti Protagonist
Hiro Trade and Logistics
Firestar Enterprises
#12 - 2012-07-06 12:19:52 UTC
Mark Androcius wrote:
Othran wrote:
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Everyday ,
starting at 11:00 and lasting for 15 minutes to half an hour
the tranquility goes down for "maintenance"

I wonder what are the server farm techies doing during those few minutes
Must be like watching hamsters on coffee running around in circles lol






Maintenance is all routinely scripted - apart from patch deployment which requires a unique script.

Edit - server is in London, game devs are in Iceland where its Friday and midsummer. Scripts 4tw I feel P


I don't know about the scripted part, sometimes the server goes off way past 11:00 and comes back up just 5 minutes or less later, a script would have been much more strict, 11:00 AM, bam offline, no matter what.

Unless of course the script is failing at those times and someone has to come in and do it manually.


Scripts, particularly database scripts, can vary in time depending on how much data they need to manipulate in a particular run. For example (and this is a completely made up task), if they were "deleting" destroyed ships from the database. One day, 1,000 ships are destroyed and it takes 1 second to delete them. The next day there were massive fights in 0.0 and hulkageddon, so there are now 10,000 records to delete that takes 8 seconds.... Put that across hundreds (guessing here) of tasks and timing can vary. The 30 minutes is your long run time, sometimes it doesn't need that much to be done and they just bring it back earlier rather than holding it for the full 30 minutes.
Ivy Romanova
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-07-06 12:47:07 UTC
Riyal wrote:
They switch everything off and on again to fix any problems.


they must be using windows

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Goremageddon Box
Guerrilla Flotilla
#14 - 2012-07-06 12:56:32 UTC
Ivy Romanova wrote:
Everyday ,
starting at 11:00 and lasting for 15 minutes to half an hour
the tranquility goes down for "maintenance"

I wonder what are the server farm techies doing during those few minutes
Must be like watching hamsters on coffee running around in circles lol





give hamsters break, fresh food, water, change the newspaper for poop... etc....
Goremageddon Box
Guerrilla Flotilla
#15 - 2012-07-06 12:57:33 UTC
cant believe i was the first one with a hamster post.... wtf is wrong with all of you lol
Andrea Roche
State War Academy
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-07-06 13:18:09 UTC
Sentient Blade wrote:
Downtime is when CCP moves their freighters out of Jita to avoid getting ganked.


+1
this is all and only thing that happens during down time. i can confirm this.