[cod] Getting out of memory for certain maps

scheuselchen at web.de scheuselchen at web.de
Wed Nov 4 13:25:39 EST 2009 

The openwarfare has a huge mod.ff, I guess that the server sums this up together with the current loaded map.ff. 
So in summary with big maps and big mods you quickly reach the limit --> Server ABORTING. 

But the mp_apesgorod.ff has just round about 45 MB. hmpf.   

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "RedDragon" <reddragon at efc-funclan.de>
> Gesendet: 04.11.09 07:54:09
> An: "Call of Duty server admin list." <cod at icculus.org>
> Betreff: Re: [cod] Getting out of memory for certain maps


> Hi,
> 
> i have had the same problem discriped below. The map runs fine under mod 
> warfare but don't under openwarfare.
> 
> Greets
> -RedDragon
> 
> scheuselchen at web.de schrieb:
> > The problem lies within the main ff-file of the map. This ff-file should stay under 50 MB, then the map runs fine.   
> > Most mappers in europe are aware of this issue and try to keep the maps small. But some don't care as Windows Server do not have this troubles. 
> >
> > But the map apesgorod should run under linux, it was tested on it without any issues. That puzzles me a bit.  Where did you download it? 
> >
> > (You can send me also a direct email concerning apesgorod if you like to)
> >
> > lg wally
> >
> >
> >   
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: "Markus Fischer" <markus at fischer.name>
> >> Gesendet: 03.11.09 10:22:47
> >> An: "Call of Duty server admin list." <cod at icculus.org>
> >> Betreff: Re: [cod] Getting out of memory for certain maps
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> ok, thanks .. now that I call a "Wow!" effect, quite a negative one.
> >>
> >> Sorry for rolling up such an old topic, it must be as COD4 is available 
> >> for sometime and I just jumped onto the scene playing it and with my server.
> >>
> >> So given the long time it already exists and that we're at Patch level 
> >> 1.7, it conclude that the developers did this deliberately and will not 
> >> remove/fix this?
> >>
> >> I'm now unsure who is the "developer" in this case, as I found this list 
> >> and icculus.org by searching for the Linux dedicated binary but I'm 
> >> unsure what the connection is between icculus.org and IW?
> >>
> >> I mean, doing something like this is certainly not something community 
> >> developers would impose onto their users ...
> >>
> >> thanks and .. still puzzled,
> >> - Markus
> >>
> >> b.m.schiltmans at planet.nl wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Anyone correct me if I'm wrong (hope so ;-) ), but yes that's what it 
> >>> looks like.
> >>> No misreading on your part, I'm afraid.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >>> Van: Markus Fischer [mailto:markus at fischer.name]
> >>> Verzonden: ma 2-11-2009 23:43
> >>> Aan: Call of Duty server admin list.
> >>> Onderwerp: Re: [cod] Getting out of memory for certain maps
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> sorry, English is not my native language and I'm surely misreading this.
> >>>
> >>> Did you just say that there's a *hardcoded* memory limit into the
> >>> *dedicated server* binary?
> >>>
> >>> confused,
> >>> - Markus
> >>>
> >>> B.M. Schiltmans wrote:
> >>>  > Unfortunatelly no, it's a limit that seems to be hardcoded into the
> >>>  > executable. Too bad it's lower than the windoze version so there's some
> >>>  > maps we just can't run.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Grtz
> >>>  > Bram
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Markus Fischer wrote:
> >>>  >> Hi,
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> Some maps won't load due out of memory problems, even though the system
> >>>  >> has enough. E.g. I've 1GB RAM and there's plenty of it left, still I get
> >>>  >> the following with certain maps:
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> Loading fastfile mp_i2
> >>>  >> Error: Need 3220896 more bytes of ram for alloc to succeed
> >>>  >> OUT OF MEMORY! ABORTING!!! (universal/physicalmemory.cpp:625)
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> I get this with couple other maps too, e.g. mp_apesgorod .
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> I checked with ulimit -a and there are no special limits afaik:
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> $ ulimit  -a
> >>>  >> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> >>>  >> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> >>>  >> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> >>>  >> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> >>>  >> pending signals                 (-i) 73728
> >>>  >> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> >>>  >> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> >>>  >> open files                      (-n) 1024
> >>>  >> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> >>>  >> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> >>>  >> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> >>>  >> stack size              (kbytes, -s) unlimited
> >>>  >> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> >>>  >> max user processes              (-u) 73728
> >>>  >> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> >>>  >> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> Is there something obvious I'm missing? Some settings/switch which tells
> >>>  >> the cod4 server to provide more memory for maps?
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >> thanks
> >>>  >> - Markus
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