Ok... I'm wrong... but why exactly? Why is setting your heapsize over 32MB gross overkill? I'm not just going to take your word for it :-) I've got hard data that shows contrary to your statement. If you can *prove* me wrong, I'm all for it.
K2 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin J. Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: yes, you are wrong,sry. there is never a reason to set your heapsize over 32000, and even that is gross overkill this is straight from valves mouth in the past. ----- Original Message ----- From: "K2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:49 PM Subject: RE: | That depends really on how many players you plan to host on your game | port. The 20 player CS ports I run on the Hardfought server would run | comfortably with a heapsize set at 64meg (-heapsize 65536) each when | full. Now, one thing to keep in mind is this (and feel free to correct | me if I'm wrong, I very well could be) - setting the heapsize for your | HL port only tells your OS to reserve that amount for hlds.exe that the | OS itself wont grab, under any circumstances... so you gotta be a bit | careful on how you set it. Say you run a server that has 384MB ram and | you set your heapsize to use 256MB. You better make sure the rest of the | processes running on your box don't require more than 128meg, or your | server performance is going to suffer. | | What I've noticed on running my CS ports (this is on w2k adv. server | SP2) is that on initial startup hlds.exe will consume about 64 meg of | physical memory and roughly 122MB of virtual memory, regardless of the | heapsize vale. When full with 20 players, physical memory usage will | level out at about 130-135MB, give or take a bit. Watch and see how much | physical memory your game port will consume when full - that's your key | to where you should probably tell hlds to reserve for itself. Maybe add | about 8 meg for overhead. | | K2 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://nexus.hardfought.org <http://nexus.hardfought.org> | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: Mark W. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:36 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: | | | What is the best heap size to run your server? | | Mark | |
