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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle17><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle17><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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Crandall<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Geoff Goas
[mailto:gitman@gmail.com]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 16, 2007
10:23 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> cod@icculus.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [cod] COD4 Server
Memory Limit</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>probably has to do with the fact that
they're using memory-resident fastfiles in addition to the iwd system</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>On Dec 16,
2007 11:20 PM, Vaughan Reid <<a href="mailto:vaunus@gmail.com">vaunus@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>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. <br>
<br>
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. </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Robert Ros [mailto:<a href="mailto:robertros@gmail.com">robertros@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Monday, 17 December 2007 5:39 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [cod] COD4 Server Memory Limit</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>That's
nonsense, a dedicated server just needs to handle network<br>
connections between the clients and it manages a global gamestate<br>
(Player locations / health / etc) A dedicated server doesn't need to <br>
load all those high resolution textures in memory. That's where the huge<br>
amount of memory usage is coming from I think.<br>
<br>
There is a command 'meminfo' in CoD4, I'm not sure what the numbers mean <br>
though.<br>
<br>
meminfo<br>
10485760 bytes total hunk<br>
<br>
5096 low permanent<br>
<br>
39648 high permanent<br>
<br>
44744 total hunk in use<br>
$init 0.0<br>
common_mp 39.0<br>
localized_common_m 2.6<br>
free physical 33.6<br>
mp_convoy 51.7<br>
localized_code_pos 0.7<br>
code_post_gfx_mp 0.5<br>
------------------------<br>
<br>
<br>
- Robert<br>
<br>
NewLight Systems wrote:<br>
> just buy more ram :S <br>
><br>
> Vaughan Reid escribió:<br>
>><br>
>> I know this issue has been brought up a couple of times already, but<br>
>> has anyone found a way to limit memory usage for COD4 server instances<br>
>> in Linux/Unix? <br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I am currently hosting nearly 30 servers and the amount of RAM they<br>
>> use collectively is ridiculous. Whats more, the differences in RAM<br>
>> usage are huge – right now servers are using anything from 15Mb to <br>
>> 300Mb. They are all empty and all similar in maxplayers size. I also<br>
>> host around 15 COD/COD2 servers and have had com_hunkmegs set to 64Mb<br>
>> for all of them for months now without issues as I have found that <br>
>> servers do not use anything near what they reserve for themselves.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I'm not sure why they took com_hunkmegs out of COD4 but I really need<br>
>> an alternative if anyone has one. I've tried ulimit without success. <br>
>><br>
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