--- Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have been using nohup to daemonize a game server, problem is > that when I eventually need to restart the game server, killing > the process is NOT freeing the RAM. I'm using kill (pid). > Anyways, another oddity is that when I use nohup the gameserver > process is slowly consuming more and more ram, however if I don't > nohup it I do not suffer this problem, or at least it's not > noticable. > I would very much like to be able to start the gameserver, then > close my SSH session, however other than nohup I cannot think > of an alternative that gives me that flexbility. > The game server features a "console" mode that it goes into by > default, and was never really designed to be run as a daemon, > but other than the console spew I cannot see any reason why the > process could not be daemonized. > I was hoping someone here may have some suggestions as to what else > I may use.
What about running the game server in a detached screen session? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
