[cod] COD4 Server Memory Limit

[Dallas Crandall]

I do not quite understand the memory issues that everyone has posted about
here. The meminfo basically tells you total memory in use, is there a way
for it to list each processes memory/swap used?
My running processes state it is taking up 367 megs for COD4 process, but
does not call out how much of this is in swap space. This VM is currently
running a 32 man COD4 server plus email & web with only 256megs of physical
ram on it.
Thanks,
Dallas Crandall



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Goas [mailto:gitman at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:23 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] COD4 Server Memory Limit

probably has to do with the fact that they're using memory-resident
fastfiles in addition to the iwd system
On Dec 16, 2007 11:20 PM, Vaughan Reid < vaunus at gmail.com
<mailto:vaunus at gmail.com> > wrote:
Agreed. I just bought 8GB of RAM for that system and it is almost all being
soaked up already. I can't see any logical reason why they would take
com_hunkmegs out of the game.

The meminfo command was pointed out to me on a forum which is the basis on
which I limited the ram with com_hunkmegs in older games in the COD series,
and as I said, I have had absolutely no problems with this on servers of
varying size.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Ros [mailto: robertros at gmail.com <mailto:robertros at gmail.com> ]
Sent: Monday, 17 December 2007 5:39 AM
To: cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
Subject: Re: [cod] COD4 Server Memory Limit
That's nonsense, a dedicated server just needs to handle network
connections between the clients and it manages a global gamestate
(Player locations / health / etc) A dedicated server doesn't need to
load all those high resolution textures in memory. That's where the huge
amount of memory usage is coming from I think.

There is a command 'meminfo' in CoD4, I'm not sure what the numbers mean
though.

meminfo
10485760 bytes total hunk

    5096 low permanent

   39648 high permanent

   44744 total hunk in use
$init                0.0
common_mp           39.0
localized_common_m   2.6
free physical       33.6
mp_convoy           51.7
localized_code_pos   0.7
code_post_gfx_mp     0.5
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NewLight Systems wrote:
> just buy more ram :S
>
> Vaughan Reid escribió:
>>
>> I know this issue has been brought up a couple of times already, but
>> has anyone found a way to limit memory usage for COD4 server instances
>> in Linux/Unix?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am currently hosting nearly 30 servers and the amount of RAM they
>> use collectively is ridiculous. Whats more, the differences in RAM
>> usage are huge – right now servers are using anything from 15Mb to
>> 300Mb. They are all empty and all similar in maxplayers size. I also
>> host around 15 COD/COD2 servers and have had com_hunkmegs set to 64Mb
>> for all of them for months now without issues as I have found that
>> servers do not use anything near what they reserve for themselves.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure why they took com_hunkmegs out of COD4 but I really need
>> an alternative if anyone has one. I've tried ulimit without success.
>>
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