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

Wed Feb 19 16:15:37 EST 2003

This actually is not the server's fault. It's the kernels fault. The 
Linux kernel aggressively caches the filesystem to use as much memory 
as possible. You have 449114k going to disk cache. If you were to start 
a memory intensive process, it would throw away some of that cache and 
use the memory for the new process. The upside is filesystem access is 
a lot faster. The downside is that it takes a little more detective 
work to know how much memory your process is using.

-P

  Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Daniel Valois wrote:

> 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
> -----
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>
>
>
> ----- 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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