Memory problem
Hi guys... i have one problem with my server.
Every 4-5 days channel 1 crashed... the reason is that permanent full ram memory of computer. With each passing day of the channel rises RAM memory and no falls...
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Plz guys help me ;(
Last edited by Backo; 27-09-10 at 07:46 PM.
get more RAM?
lol... now memory is 8GB? how much?
o_O i run 10 channels of 8 GB, your PC(dedi what ever it is) is messed up or just your CentOS
More players online = more ram needed. Try shutting down a channel or two and see if that solves it.
What error gets written to the logs when the channel crashes?
in the moment i have three channels.
with every minute memory use of channel 1 is growing steadily and will not fall... no matter if there is continuous 100 players in the game or 30
Are you using any mods or just my 2.8 server files? Something must be unusual here or it would affect everyone. Does the server run anything other than the cabal server?
i use your 2.8 files :) of computer is placed only cabal server and web page..
channel 1 crashed two days ago... and here is picture now how mutch to use memory... 36% of 8GB... the last night was used 27% memory with 100 players in game...
now in server play 60 players... every day used memory of channel 1 is increased... ;(
Last edited by Backo; 28-09-10 at 09:39 AM.
1º The more changes in the game, more processor/memory will need channel. example: much mobs,drops,etc...
2º Image showing u have 3gb of ram. -_-
3º Crasheds? put ur channel in LogLevel 6 and look log searching error's.
ps: 320mb free physical memory, but u have 3gb of virtual memory called "swap"
Last edited by LostSpirit; 28-09-10 at 12:26 PM.
This is the computer which is for temporary use... with 3.5GB RAM
the official pc is:
2 x AMD Opteron 254, 2x2.80Ghz
8192MB DDR ECC
2 x 160GB SATA2
to him it also has this problem... but not every 5 days... and in the 2 weeks...
sorry for my bad english
Ram usage will increase over time until it reaches it's maximum for the players online. When working out how many channels i should have i would always start with 1 channel only and monitor how much ram is used at the busiest times. The maximum number of channels you can have will be total ram divided by the ram taken by that one channel at it's maximum load (though not all channels will reach the max load).
Cabal does use up a lot of ram. I Can't find it now as something has happened to the search settings but phiber posted how much ram his server uses and it was quite a lot.
Wow the 7969, I like that machine.
I think this is some kind of memory leak inside the channel service. I had to deal with it myself, and since there's no source code available, I fixed it with regular restarts of the cabal service via cron-job.
Not the best solution, but works for me.
I haven't seen this myself but my channels don't last long before restarts/config wipes. Nobody has reported it to me before but if there is a leak i need to know.
How much do the worldsvrs increase in ram usage each day for you? The max players you had per channel and the uptime of the channel would help me too.
I searched some forums, got following commands to "clear system cache".
was recommended to create a cron script running twice a day.Code:echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
maybe can help u.
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