Star Wars Galaxies: Oh My! We Killed TestCenter2!

Well, the Devs asked for people to log on to TC2 and test things, and log on they did. I can attest from personal experience that the lag was indescribeable. As a result of this unexpected "stress test", some server configuration changes have been made.

From JustG:

... today was a benchmark in SWG testing history: TC2 reached a population of 2200, several times our previous max. approximately 1/2 of those people were on Dathomir o.O

If you were there, you know that testing was not possible because of the lag. Here is how we are going to mitigate this for the next couple of days:

1) We are going to cap the server population at 1000. This has already been done.
2) We are going to reconfigure the server processes around Dathomir to handle the increased load.
3) We are going to bounce the cluster (and change the Village Phase) 3 times/ day. When this goes live the phases will change approximately every 3 weeks.

We will most likely wipe everything on Monday and start over.

If you have suggestions or comments about the testing process, please use this thread.

If you have bugs, please report them here:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=in_testing&message.id=23475

Thanks!

- g