[ut2004] RAM usage in 2.6.9?

Rick zajelo3 at cfl.rr.com
Mon Oct 25 19:58:19 EDT 2004


Mathew Hennessy wrote:

>Hi,
> I'm having a hell of a time with ut2004 when running the 2.6.9 kernel.  I end 
>up maxing out physical memory (top shows over 280MB real, 420 total for 
>ut2004-bin) and going into swap.  This results in a major slowdown.
>
> Is there any instrumentation in ut2004 that I can turn on that would help 
>diagnose this issue?
>
> I'm running a P4 2.8C, 512MB RAM, Gentoo 2.6.9 w/nvidia 6111 drivers.
>
>TIA!
>- Matt
>
>  
>
    Any kernel I've ever used has taken that much memory to run ut2004, 
be it a 2.4 kernel or 2.6. Can you do a  "echo 0 > 
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness" to keep your machine from swapping? It works on 
FC2 with 512megs of memory. Otherwise you can add some variables to your 
etc/rc.d/rc.local file like :

echo 16 > /sys/block/hda/queue/max_sectors_kb
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
echo 95 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio

All this does is tweak your virtual memory.

                     Rick B




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