“We’re starting off the new year with a bang” announced Maestro Linden and that certainly seems to have been the case as the unexpected Lag Storm Bernard (named by Loki Eliot) left many a sim creaking in its wake. There was many a warning to: Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds as the storm caused the Linden firefighters to embark upon a series of rolling restarts to combat the worst case scenarios that were playing out.
Reports were coming in of performance issues, packet loss, problems rezzing, requests for a rollback, and in some cases, outright grumpiness as people, probably without hats and waterproofs, inspected the trail of chaos.