[ut2004] speed of loading maps

[Corey Hickey]

augustus at linuxhardware.org wrote:
> I confirm that I am having a weird problem on one of my systems.  It 
> sounds very similar to the bug you are describing.  Odd thing is, it only 
> happens on specific hardware.  i.e. If I run the same hard disk on two 
> different machines, one has the problem and one doesn't.  It's odd and 
> I've done many many many things to try and track this down with no luck. 
> If you think you have a software fix, I'd love to see it as soon as you 
> get a chance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris Kersey (Augustus)
> LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
> augustus at linuxhardware.org
> Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer
> augustus at gentoo.org
> 

What are the respective hardware specs of each machine? Offhand I'd
guess that one machine has enough RAM and the other doesn't, but it
could be something more complicated.

I seem to remember very long map load times around last summer but I
haven't had any trouble recently - about 15-20 seconds. I ran some
quick-and-dirty measurements of how much memory UT2004 is using.

Before running ut2004:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
             total      used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1022892    644032     378860          0      64312     334032
-/+ buffers/cache:    245688     777204
Swap:           0          0          0

After loading ut2004, sitting at the main menu:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      1022892     855752     167140          0      64616     403532
-/+ buffers/cache:    387604     635288
Swap:           0          0          0

After loading ONS-ArcticStronghold:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      1022892    1017152       5740          0      26032     374424
-/+ buffers/cache:    616696     406196
Swap:           0          0          0

After exiting ut2004:
bugfood at bugfood:~/scripts$ free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      1022892     651080     371812          0      26680     374296
-/+ buffers/cache:    250104     772788
Swap:           0          0          0


So, at least on my system, ut2004 happily consumes about 360 MB of
memory (judging from the the free memory listed on the -/+ buffers/cache
row). I don't know if ut2004 uses less memory on systems with less RAM.

-Corey