Giving Ns More Memory?

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• Sandman Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9870Members

  January 2003

  I think buy default, hlds allocates 32mb ram for your server. I don't know exactly what the -zone argument does for linux but whatever it does, it would belong at the very end of the runline.
  
  To allocate more memory to a windows server, the argument is -heapsize, not -zone. Im not sure if that works on linux or not but you can try it. I also don't think NS has VAC support yet so the -secure argument can be removed.
  
  Try this runline and tell me what happends.
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• HtNickoli Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9786Members

  January 2003 edited January 2003

  Server memory is -heapsize. -zone, is config memory space. You really only need to increase the -zone memory allocation if you run adminmod or clan mod with alot of plugins and large config files. Although it certianlly doesn't hurt.
  
  Here's the switches I use. Although HL never uses near this ammount of memory. I'm pretty sure hl has a max limmit to the memory it can use, but my brains to fuzzy from lack of sleep. But as a general rule no server needs more the 392 megs dedicated to it. I just have memory to spare so figured wtf.
  
  -heapsize 524288 -zone 20480 -debug
  
  But I'm pretty sure HL will take what memory it needs to run. So this might not be your problem. How much memory do you have in the pc trying to run the server?
  
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  FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Cache_TryAlloc: 840192 is greater then free hunk
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  I'm pretty sure that means the server try'd to allocate more memory, but there wasn't enuff free memory there. But meh, as I said, brains really fuzzy. I just looked in to see if the forums where actually up again.

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• cortana Join Date: 2003-01-11 Member: 12162Members

  January 2003 edited January 2003

  Sorry for my delay in replying--the forums went down shortly after I posted and I assumed it was lost (in reality it scrolled off the list quickly <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)
  
  Right now, I'm trying <i>./hlds -heapsize 65535 -pingboost 1</i>. I'm dropping the <i>-zone argument</i> for now as it didn't do what I thought it did in the first place.
  
  The machine in question has a gig of RAM installed and another gig of swap on top of that, so my problem wasn't caused by <i>that</i>. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  
  If the server still doesn't stay up I'll experiment with giving it more memory with <i>-heapsize</i>, altering the order of the command line arguments and other general fiddling. Either way I'll post back here with what I find out!
  
  <b>update</b>
  
  Guys, the <i>-heapsize</i> argument works a treat. Thanks again!

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