[bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan? Hello?

charles "wokka" goldsmith wokka at justfamily.org
Wed Feb 19 16:14:31 EST 2003 

You didn't show the top portion where it showed that bf1942_lnxded is
using all of your ram.

Most linux/unix boxes will eat up all the ram just sitting idle after a
few hours/days according to top.  This is normal and to be expected.
However, the OS will give up that memory to any processes needing it.
Unfortunately, top under linux does this.  Other unix flavors handle top
differently.

For example, here is a snapshot of my top on FreeBSD box:

last pid: 43892;  load averages:  0.02,  0.06,  0.02
up 22+16:28:15  15:12:39
85 processes:  1 running, 84 sleeping
CPU states:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     %
idle
Mem: 459M Active, 350M Inact, 160M Wired, 31M Cache, 112M Buf, 4096K
Free
Swap: 4095M Total, 172K Used, 4094M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU
COMMAND
 8770 wokka      2   0   114M 97472K select 0 115:01  5.37%  5.37%
bf1942-1
17787 wokka      2   0   684K   300K select 1 283:24  3.17%  3.17% rwbs
43892 wokka     30   0  1988K  1000K CPU0   1   0:01 42.00%  2.05% top
  880 wokka      2   0   155M 54848K select 0  16.9H  2.00%  2.00%
wolf_r2
 9615 wokka      2   0 87956K 31440K select 1  18:46  0.83%  0.83%
q3ded1
26983 wokka      2   0 96188K 33812K select 1  10:27  0.68%  0.68%
q3ded2
  879 wokka      2   0 91944K 33492K select 0 504:55  0.29%  0.29%
jk2_r1
16734 wokka     10   0   145M   140M nanslp 1  98:40  0.05%  0.05%
mohaa1
  905 wokka      2   0   148M 52828K select 0  14.4H  2.56%  2.56%
wolf_r1

all of my games are idle, and also note, I've renamed the executables so
that I can run more than one instance of each server.

As you can see, bf1942 is using 114M of ram, with 97M reserved...  and
this is the lowest I've seen the cpu when the game was idle.

Specs on my box in case you are interested.  Dual p3-1ghz with 1 gig of
ram.  Running Freebsd 4.7 release

HTH

Charles Goldsmith
Network Engineer
CompUSA Corporate
972-982-4086 office
972-839-4458 cell

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Valois [mailto:ninzor at packet-kids.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:47 PM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan? Hello?

Gentoo linux-2.4.20


08:37:31  up 6 days, 22:43,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
25 processes: 24 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.9% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% iowait, 99.0%
idle
Mem:   775260k av,  757828k used,   17432k free,       0k shrd,  118196k
buff
       351404k active,             296660k inactive
Swap:  530136k av,      16k used,  530120k free                  449144k
cached



  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 9764 bf1942    16   0  1040 1040   824 R     0.9  0.1   0:00 top

----

bf1942 at sugar bf1942 $ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:           757        739         17          0        115
438
-/+ buffers/cache:        185        571
Swap:          517          0        517
-----
bf1942 at sugar bf1942 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 998.389
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1992.29
-----




----- Original Message -----
From: "DLinkOZ" <dlinkoz at oesm.org>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan? Hello?


> I think the best thing you could do is list your system specs, OS
specs,
etc
> for Ryan and explain what's happening.  Tell him what you've got and
that
> the server is running wild on memory consumption.  A one liner in all
caps
> saying it's too high does him absolutely no good at all.  700mb... are
you
> sure there's not some cached memory you're not seeing?  Top actually
says
> the bf1942_lnxded process is using 700mb?  It's not necessarily a code
> issue, because it's not happening to everyone.  Might be some sort of
> combination of OS version and hardware that's causing it, and
obviously
I'm
> not using that combination since I experience no leaks.  Until Ryan
can
see
> what hardware and what OS' are exhibiting this problem, it will be
hard
for
> him to nail it down.
>
> My point is, sending an email to the list with a simple line of "NO
> DEDIDICATED SERVER SHOULD NEED THIS MUCH MEMORY!" does whoever codes
the
> product absolutely no good.  You might as well just tell him the gross
> national product of Finland... it would help as much in his coding
efforts.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Valois" <ninzor at packet-kids.com>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan? Hello?
>
>
> > if you buy into capitol letters as shouting then perhaps you should
> > reevaluate your priorities. I dont think it needs over 700 Mb of
memory.
> and
> > i dont need some smartass to tell me it's a beta. perhaps a memory
leak
> that
> > ryan needs to look at. Or perhaps some more stripping down of the
client
> > portion is in order.this is what this list is for. WOW. YOU QUOTED
BILL
> > GATES. get back in line with the rest of the sheep
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Reinder P. Gerritsen" <reinder at strikerz.net>
> > To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:08 PM
> > Subject: RE: [bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan? Hello?
> >
> >
> > > Bill Gates once said: 640kb of RAM, that ought to be all that man
should
> > > EVER need in his computer...
> > >
> > > Then why oh wy do I have almost a thousand times more that amount
in
my
> > > box at home? And over three-thousand times on my dedicated server
box?
> > > My HL servers each use around 96 MB of mem, could be tweaked and
> > > limited, but that effects performance. Anyway, no one ever
explained
to
> > > you that CAPITOLS are considered shouding, and shouting on an
> > > mailing-list usualy is linked to flaming and ranting?
> > >
> > > When does the name BETA finally ring a bell in your head? It's not
like
> > > you're running an 6 year old fully developed QuakeWorld CTF server
12
> > > player here you know... Memory requirements GROW.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could be right, but as long as you keep on going CAPS
on
> > > oneliners, don't expect many guy's on the list to take you serious
here.
> > > It just feels like ranting on Ryan accusing him for doing a lousy
job...
> > >
> > > Fox
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Valois [mailto:ninzor at packet-kids.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 PM
> > > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > > Subject: Re: Re: Re[3]: [bf1942] Status of Linux server? Ryan?
Hello?
> > >
> > >
> > > NO DEDIDICATED SERVER SHOULD NEED THIS MUCH MEMORY!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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