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Possible workaround for memory leak

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Harv

Post Mon Mar 24, 2003 6:25 pm

Possible workaround for memory leak

Like many other admins out there, I'm getting sick of my server crashing every 16-20 hours depending on the current load.

Out of curiosity, I downloaded and installed a freeware memory manager to free up memory which wasn't being released properly.

Prior to doing this, I watched memory usage for flserver.exe within the task manager and saw it grow steadily, eventually causing it to crash at, or around, 160MB.

After installing RAMpage (http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/), memory usage would climb up to ~100MB before dropping back down to ~60MB or so as RAMpage flushed the memory. It seems to have made my machine more stable. I only installed RAMpage yesterday, so haven't had a chance to make any long-term observations.

Hope this helps other admins out there.

Blue Harvest 24/7 Dedicated Server... minus the few minutes when the memory leak takes us down.

Harv

Post Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:25 pm

I tell ya... that Harv. What a maroon.

The server stayed up for 32 straight hours after installing RAMpage. Now it crashes regularly around the 16-20 hour mark.

A memory manager might not be a bad idea in general, but unfortunately it doesn't help in our case.

Sorry if I gave anyone false hopes.

Blue Harvest 24/7 Dedicated Server... minus the few minutes when the memory leak takes us down.

Oldmold

Post Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:29 pm

I also installed RAMpage, with no luck, unfortunately.

Last night my server crashed after only 2 hours of uptime Do you use any sort of server auto-restart utilities? Can you elaborate if you do?

GreyWolf

Post Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:08 pm

I am wondering what OS U are using that u need a memory manager ??
I run the server in win2k and don't need one
Just keep in mind that Win98 doesn't Utilize memory over 96Mb so in that case a memory manager might be a help
Some of them u can set up to check your memory at specific times
Server OS like WinNt Win2k and WinXp shouldn't have those problems

Oldmold

Post Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:35 am

I'm running Win2k. Yeah I know it doesnt really need a memory manager, I was grasping at straws trying to get the server to be more stable...

I guess I'll stick with manually restarting it untill the patch gets here.

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