Second Life and the Slashdot Effect
There was quite a buzz in the Second Life blogosphere in October about the 400+ sims The Electric Sheep Company and CBS had available on the Second Life Grid for the CSI:NY Virtual Experience. There was also a lot of speculation on what it meant when we initially cut the number of sims to 200. What wasn’t well covered was Second Life and the Slashdot Effect.
Load balancing in Second Life is an expensive and sometimes complicated effort. Sims are static and persistent. They run on the…
