Eric (Deacon) writed (at Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:42:52PM -0500): > > Anyone else having this problem? If you are running linux, perhaps you > > should check top(1) and see if ``memory used'' is slowly creeping up. > > It does. BUT, swap usage stays at 0MB. It seems like the old > information is just never tossed out till something new elbows its way > to the forefront :)
hlds has no say in what gets swapped; that's entirely up to the kernel. PID NI SIZE RSS SWAP %CPU COMMAND 17713 -2 101M 101M 24 0.0 ./hlds -game cstrike -port 27016 -pingboost 2 14566 -1 82280 77M 3340 8.6 ./hlds -game cstrike -port 27017 -pingboost 2 I've only been saying this since hmm.. around the time of CS 1.0? Maybe 1.1? Hell, maybe earlier? hlds processes before that used about 35-40M and stayed that way forever. Somewhere around there, something was changed, and now there's definitely some leak, because they just *keep growing* .. 200M, 250M, etc.. Some people on this list have said that their hlds processes still stay around 40M. I don't know what to say to that; I just can't see it. One in particular told me exactly what version of glibc (the only lib that hlds links to), and I downloaded the RPM (I don't even use redhat), unpacked it, built a chroot environment, and ran hlds in that, and it *still* chewed up the memory. I was, prior to this past Saturday, always running on Debian (potato long ago, woody recently), but have since then switched to gentoo, and the memory usage has remained the same. This is not healthy.. I don't have other programs eating up memory in the same fashion.. I've yet to ever get a response from Valve about this, though.. I don't know if they just don't care or if they just don't realize how much effort some of us out here are willing to put in to help find and squash the bug(s). -- -- Casey Zacek (Zippo) Beer for Breakfast servers <http://bfb.bogleg.org/> 209.41.98.2:27016 (CS multi-map) 209.41.98.2:27015 (DoD) 209.41.98.2:27017 (CS militia/dust2) Dallas, TX _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
