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#1 Hokaru

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 12:35 AM

At the process tab, since few days ago, the clients are using tons of CPU memory, peaking at 170k ~ 200k. I don't remember how it is before but i think it's half of what it's using now..

 

 

So what happened? I asked a few friends in game but they don't seem to have this problem.

I'm using Symantec Endpoint Protection and had run a full scan but found nothing..


Edited by Hokaru, 21 April 2014 - 01:44 AM.

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#2 Hireme

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Posted 21 April 2014 - 04:58 PM

so your ragnarok uses only 200 megabyte of ram... where is the problem?

 

My clients use around 400 mb each. Nothing to worry about.


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#3 Hokaru

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:55 AM

Obviously there's problem! It's about 2x of what it is before. I have 3gb ram by the way.

 

Now imagine your clients suddenly became 800mb each, and then someone tells you that their's also uses that much memory and nothing to worry about. Will you seriously going to think 'Oh okay, glad to hear'?

Obviously I will want it back to how it was before. Because it uses 2x more memory now, it made me lag, I can't watch video while a client is in game vending now. 

 

Could someone explain to me why different PC have different ram usage of the same game?


Edited by Hokaru, 22 April 2014 - 05:05 AM.

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#4 DrAzzy

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 10:38 AM

This is correct behavior, and it has always behaved like this. 

 

RO clients typically use between 250 and 500MB of ram, usually closer to 500MB. 

 

As with many applications, they use less memory when they are first started, before the game has cached all the common resources. As you play the game, memory usage will initially increase and then plateu somewhere around 400-500MB (though I've occasionally seen it go over it). 

 

 

I do not think the memory usage is related to the lag you have seen while watching video with the game running, particularly since I've been playing RO for close to a decade, and the memory usage has always been in that general area (it slowly grows, due to new content being added), yet you report that the problem is new. 

 

Lag caused by memory usage manifests as long delays while starting or switching between programs, as it "pages" or "swaps" data between RAM and disk, during which time the harddrive light is on and you'll hear the harddrive grinding furiously. This doesn't sound like what you cite, though. 

 

I suspect that your computer is a laptop, and is overheating. RO does load the CPU fairly heavily, and is pretty good at bringing out overheating problems. When laptops overheat (which is considered part of normal operations on a mobile computer - desktops usually handle this less gracefully), they will dramatically reduce the speed of the CPU, so it generates less heat - this will cause lag. You can test if this is the cause by letting the computer sit (turned off) for a few hours to cool, and then starting it and seeing if the lag appears immediately (indicating another problem) or only after RO has been running a while (suggestive of overheating issues). If it seems like the problem is overheating, the fix is easy - get a can of air duster and (with the computer off, ofc - and outside unless you like dust inside), alternately use the air duster on each air vent until no more dust comes out.

 


Edited by DrAzzy, 22 April 2014 - 10:39 AM.

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#5 Hokaru

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 11:45 PM

This is correct behavior, and it has always behaved like this. 

 

RO clients typically use between 250 and 500MB of ram, usually closer to 500MB. 

 

You sound like I'm lying that my clients uses half of 200k before this happened (more like 90k~130k depending of client size).
 

As with many applications, they use less memory when they are first started, before the game has cached all the common resources. As you play the game, memory usage will initially increase and then plateu somewhere around 400-500MB (though I've occasionally seen it go over it). 

 

I know full well of this. This isn't the first time I'm using a PC obviously... The 170~200k i mentioned is when I'm on the game for a quite some time, not the memory they uses when it first started.
I've always monitor my processes and never had this problem before (ro client increased by huge about of ram).
 
The problem is how it suddenly uses abt 80k more ram. If you're telling me that the recent updates increased the amount of ram that my clients uses normally by 80k and it happened to everyone of you too, then I'll take it.
 
I've tried the overheating issues but it's not the problem. The lag I've seen while watching video is related to the game, because once I closed it, the video run as per normal.

Edited by Hokaru, 22 April 2014 - 11:51 PM.

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