[bf1942] Slow startup/map change speeds?

[Kendokan]

Linux will intelligently cache everything it can. If you check memory on a
server that has been running for a while you should see nearly all of it
consumed.

     -d


> Andreas,
>
> How do you load the BF files into the system cache so it loads that
> faster?
>
> -n
>
>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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