[bf1942] Slow startup/map change speeds?

[Andreas Fredriksson]

With the BF files in system cache a level loads in a few seconds on my
Athlon 2100
here at DICE. Reading cold copies from disk will take much longer, as in
your case.

The Linux disk cache is a wonderful thing :-)

// Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart, John [mailto:johns at artesyncp.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:43 AM
> To: 'bf1942 at icculus.org'
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Slow startup/map change speeds?
> 
> 
> 
> > > Aye, I'm on the latest release, and the machine is pretty
> > decent. Athlon XP
> > > 1600, 256MB memory.
> > 
> > Upgrage your memory your crippling the machine putting such a pissy 
> > amount of memory in it ( thats less than my 350 PII laptop has ).
> 
> I really don't think that should be necessary. bf1942 only 
> uses (currently according to top) 71MB. It's the only thing 
> running on the box aside from a small instance of Apache. The 
> box ain't swapping.
> 
> johnS
>