[ut2004] UT 2004 abruptly stops

[Spike]

Disabling swap would make matters worse. You'd want to disable the swap
prefetch feature, or of course use a plain kernel to test things with
and test if it still happens.

-Bren

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:46:47 +0000
Alex Boag-Munroe <boagenator at gmail.com> wrote:

> So should I solve this by disabling swap, or use a different kernel do
> you think?
> 
> On 07/11/05, Spike <spike at spykes.net> wrote:
> > I should add to this that the Mapped Watermark patch will cause the OOM
> > killer to be more sensitive than it should be as well since things are
> > more less likely to be swapped out in time. The ck patch has this, and
> > the nitro sources has ck.
> >
> > -Bren
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:22:46 -0400
> > Spike <spike at spykes.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Your problem is that the OOM killer is killing UT2004 prematurely when
> > > it shouldn't be. Maybe try a vanilla kernel?
> > >
> > > Also I would make sure that you're not using an insane amount of
> > > memory, but thats also unlikely as things should swap out to give space
> > > for UT2004 anyways. I've never had the OOM killer kill the game myself
> > > and I have 1gb of ram too.
> > >
> > > -Bren
> > >
> > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:41:23 +0000
> > > Alex Boag-Munroe <boagenator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am replying to this because I am having a similar issue.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at my /var/log/messages I have this:
> > > >
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=2
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Mem-info:
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast DMA per-cpu:
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 12, batch 2 used:4
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 4, batch 1 used:3
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Normal per-cpu:
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast cpu 0 hot: low 0, high 384, batch 64 used:15
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 128, batch 32 used:99
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast HighMem per-cpu: empty
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Free pages:      180072kB (0kB HighMem)
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Active:10049 inactive:152718 dirty:3
> > > > writeback:0 unstable:0 free:45018 slab:37525 mapped:161649
> > > > pagetables:2573
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast DMA free:4088kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB
> > > > lots:180kB active:4396kB inactive:0kB present:15996kB
> > > > pages_scanned:5316 all_unreclaimable? yes
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast lowmem_reserve[]: 0 1007 1007
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Normal free:175984kB min:4028kB low:5032kB
> > > > high:6040kB lots:12084kB active:35800kB inactive:610872kB
> > > > present:1032128kB pages_scanned:416264 all_unreclaimable? no
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB
> > > > high:192kB lots:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
> > > > pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast DMA: 626*4kB 0*8kB 19*16kB 28*32kB 4*64kB
> > > > 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4088kB
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Normal: 28860*4kB 7482*8kB 43*16kB 0*32kB
> > > > 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 175984kB
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast HighMem: empty
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Swap cache: add 1566252, delete 1551046,
> > > > find 2315140/2469410, race 0+4
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Free swap  = 782136kB
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Total swap = 1005968kB
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Free swap:       782136kB
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast 262128 pages of RAM
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast 7860 reserved pages
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast 172150 pages shared
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast 15206 pages swap cached
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Out of Memory: Killed process 10537 (ut2004-bin-linu).
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Out of Memory: Killed process 10547 (ut2004-bin-linu).
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Out of Memory: Killed process 10548 (ut2004-bin-linu).
> > > > Nov  7 17:37:49 the-beast Out of Memory: Killed process 10549 (ut2004-bin-linu).
> > > >
> > > > My output from top after the game quits:
> > > >
> > > > Mem:   1026072k total,   532632k used,   493440k free,     5448k buffers
> > > > Swap:  1005968k total,   223096k used,   782872k free,   102816k cached
> > > >
> > > > ninpo at the-beast ~/.ut2004/System $ uname -a
> > > > Linux the-beast 2.6.13.2-nitro1 #1 Tue Oct 4 22:53:37 UTC 2005 x86_64
> > > > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> > > > ninpo at the-beast ~/.ut2004/System $
> > > >
> > > > Any other info you need?
> > > >
> > > > On 06/11/05, Robert Pollard <robertmp at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have installed UT2004 (the bin has a modified date of 2/20/2005).  Don't
> > > > > know which version but I have installed a couple of patches since the
> > > > > original installation.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am running SuSE Linux 9.1 on AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with an Nvidia Ultra 5200
> > > > > video card.  Don't know what version of drivers.  I have updated those within
> > > > > the last 5 months.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have been putting up with UT2004 completely disappearing whilst playing at
> > > > > random places.  Now it won't show the maps after choosing Instant Action.
> > > > > This was after another blow up.
> > > > >
> > > > > Would someone please show me how to find the latest versions of UT2004, Nvidia
> > > > > drivers and anything else I need and help me to make UT solid?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert Pollard
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Alex Boag-Munroe
> > > >
> > > > Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Alex Boag-Munroe
> 
> Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.