The scale of the phantom share-out was staggering.
Lin Tao carried out a deep memory profile of the Southern Continental Registry. Then, the test graph unrolled across his visual cortex in a monstrous, crimson pyramid. Of the sixty-four peta-runes of total working capacity available to the land-wide stonework, sixty-three point six peta-runes were marked as permanently occupied.
And of that occupied volume, eighty-seven point four percent was held by phantom references. Entities that had not carried out a single operation in over three thousand years.
In database reliability building, Lin Tao thought, his head pounding with the dull, relentless ache of an impending brain heavy bleeding, this is the worst possible stonework failure. An uncollected heap leak running in a single-instance system without self-running restart capabilities. The server can’t be power-cycled. So the dead references gather until the available free space hits zero.
He traced the memory addresses of the largest allocations.
The top twenty entries alone accounted for more than thirty peta-runes—nearly half the entire calculating and spiritual capacity of the southern continent.
Address 0x0001A8F0: Sovereign Ancestor Tai Huang [Ascended Era 38]. Held capacity: 4,800,000 hectoliters/cycle. Address 0x0001B412: Immortal Empress Yue Hua [Ascended Era 39]. Held capacity: 3,920,000 hectoliters/cycle. Address 0x0001CC89: Grand Patriarch Tian Luo [Ascended Era 41]. Held capacity: 3,450,000 hectoliters/cycle.
