Author Topic: Dedicated BL eating resources? (Read 4700 times)

Wizzard1 · December 03, 2007, 06:14:18 PM

I have been hosting a server now for a while, and this was a problem both with Pre-Retail Blockland and Retail:

After building, clearing, building, clearing, and so on, Blockland with a few thousand (5-ish) bricks eats up a full 811,696K RAM.

If I was to take the build, save it, and restart the server, and load the save, I know the rescources Blockland uses would be significantly less. What is one to do with a server which strives to maintain true 24/7 functionality?

Is it possible/on your to-do list to optimize whatever necessary code, or add ownership saving to the saving routine, and or add a small code snippet to allow optimization of an in-progress server?

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Trader · December 03, 2007, 06:23:30 PM

A. This should be in help.

B. I've never seen memory usage go that high. I don't think I've ever seen it go above 200,000MB (running the full game, not just dedicated).

C. Try changing maps (even to the same map). This is a way of refreshing the server.

Ronin · December 03, 2007, 06:38:37 PM

Wiz your running about 7k bricks, after my last load.

Trigun · December 03, 2007, 06:55:34 PM

I saw a lot of unloaded bricks on his server. Weird.

Sumohz · December 04, 2007, 12:06:24 AM

Yeah, we had to clear a build because it was invisable.

Dilt · December 04, 2007, 07:00:58 AM

Huston, I smell a memory leaking problem. I've run dedicated servers, never has the RAM usage gone beyond my 400mb I have on the computer I run it on.

Trader · December 04, 2007, 10:26:59 AM

Lol Dilt. RAM usage can't go above the RAM you have.

Dilt · December 04, 2007, 10:35:45 AM

Quote from: Trader on December 04, 2007, 10:26:59 AM

Lol Dilt. RAM usage can't go above the RAM you have.

I was stating in the sense of physical ram and disk swap. You can be 'using' more RAM than you have, just most of it would be slammed into disk swap. For example, running WC3 on a computer with 64mb of RAM would be a disaster. Most of the ~200mb of memory usage would have to be forced into swap, and it would make playing and loading the game extremely miserable.

But technically, you're right. RAM usage can't go about the amount of RAM you actually have, considering it's RAM usage, and not Memory usage. *Shakes fist* I shall return!

Trader · December 04, 2007, 10:50:10 AM

* Trader sets Dilts paging file to 0MB.

Dilt · December 04, 2007, 11:11:14 AM

Quote from: Trader on December 04, 2007, 10:50:10 AM

* Trader sets Dilts paging file to 0MB.

Boo!

Wizzard1 · December 04, 2007, 11:03:33 PM

Um, I have 4GB of RAM :-D And about a 2GB Pagefile.

Trader · December 05, 2007, 12:46:38 AM

4GB of RAM on any consumer Windows system is a waste of money. 2GB is plenty. If you enjoy wasting money, please send some my way.

Minion · December 05, 2007, 01:40:33 AM

I only have half a 512mb of ram :(
BUY ME SOME

Bisjac · December 05, 2007, 01:45:35 AM

xp cant even see more then about 3.6

and vista can, but uses it for running vista pretty much.

Trader · December 05, 2007, 10:04:44 AM

I run Vista, and it never uses my full 2GB. I don't think I ever break 55-60% usage.