probably has to do with the fact that they're using memory-resident fastfiles in addition to the iwd system<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 16, 2007 11:20 PM, Vaughan Reid <<a href="mailto:vaunus@gmail.com">vaunus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>-----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">
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<div class="Wj3C7c">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.
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