<p>For that matter, since we're talking about system maintenance, remember that the windows operating system actually has to be manually defragmented using Disk Defragmenter (Disk Optimizer in 8) or a third party software like piriform's Defragmenter. While you're at it, I'd clean out your temp files and fix any registry errors using piriform's CCleaner. Or whatever tool you wanna use. Also, what anti virus are you using? Is it perhaps running a mini-scan on the hour? And, since you mentioned reinstalling windoze, do you have all the correct drivers for your box? </p>
<p>I'm assuming those memory values are the ones reported at the time if the lockup, but isn't there some diagnostic software you can run that will actually log (and perhaps graph) the memory usage of windows? Actually, how are you getting the data? Is that a reliable source, I mean, is it actually reading the background data usage of windows as windoze checks for updates and does it's own, memory-intensive thing? </p>
<p>This is just a part of the general checklist I go through every time I troubleshoot something on windows. I mean, if it's a ghost problem like this. </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 2, 2013 4:04 AM, "M.E. Verhagen" <<a href="mailto:marceled9@gmail.com">marceled9@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>That you have 11 gig in does not automatic mean opensim gets access to the full 11 gig. There are other programs running and os system can limit the max used by an app. <br></div>With 11 gigs in you should minimize the disk caching. Disk caching is slow.<br>
<br></div>You use an relative old mysql vesion. Mysql can also slow opensim down when not configured properly.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/8/1 Chris M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mewtwo0641@gmail.com" target="_blank">mewtwo0641@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div>Hi Dahlia,<br>
<br>
I don't believe I am low on system memory... It has 11 gigs in it
and only using ~37% of it overall even after running my viewer and
OpenSim for a while and not much else running aside from that
except the occasional browser window and maybe Winamp; although I
do experience the lockups with nothing else running except OpenSim
and a single viewer. OpenSim's memory use has always been ~500 -
600 MB give or take a few of course.<br>
<br>
My video card should be more than capable; but I don't usually
have the settings ramped up to the highest for everyday use. <br>
<br>
Average CPU use is about ~30% - 40% most of the time; much of it
being my viewer. I have tried setting CPU affinity to processor 3
for the viewer so that OpenSim has the other 3 cores to do stuff
with but to not much avail.<br>
<br>
The system was last rebooted about 3 hours ago as of this writing
where I have continued using OpenSim and experienced the lock ups
since then.<br>
<br>
Windows was recently reinstalled fresh on the system to rule out
possibility of malware, corruption, or something else screwy going
on there.<br>
<br>
I gathered together a few bits of system info that might be
helpful (While OpenSim and a viewer has been running for a while):<br>
<br>
OpenSim memory use as reported by show stats command:<br>
<br>
MEMORY STATISTICS<br>
Allocated to OpenSim objects: 306 MB<br>
OpenSim last object memory churn : 0.559 MB/s<br>
OpenSim average object memory churn : 1.051 MB/s<br>
Process memory : 599 MB<br>
<br>
Memory use as reported by Windows Task Manager:<br>
Total: 11263<br>
Cached: 4553<br>
Available: 7029<br>
Free: 2728<br>
<br>
and my system setup:<br>
<font color="#000000"><div>OpenSim: 10 Region Standalone on 0.7.6 Dev<br>
Physics: Open Dynamics Engine<br>
OS: Windows 7 (x64)<br>
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2 GHz<br></div>
Video: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1 GB)<div><br>
Memory: 11 GB DDR3<br>
Database: MySQL 5.1.63 (x64)</div></font><br>
<br>
At one point in OpenSim's development not too long ago (I don't
remember exactly when, probably sometime before mid to late
0.7.5's development) this was never an issue; I never saw any
lockups. Nothing has changed on my system hardware wise and very
minimal change has been done on my regions since then except for
the fact that I try to keep my server up to date with the latest
development code when possible. I do understand the risks of this
and I'm perfectly happy to be a tester for it :) I suppose my
question now though is... Why would it be happening in the more
recent code?<br>
<br>
I'm by no means an expert when it comes to memory use which is why
I'm asking a ton of questions and trying to provide as much info
as I can think of :) My apologies if I'm asking too many.<br>
<br>
Many thanks for the help and suggestions so far!<div><br>
<br>
On 8/1/2013 11:20 AM, Dahlia Trimble wrote:<br>
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<div>Sounds to me like you're low on system memory. Try closing
some other applications, especially web browsers with lots of
open tabs. Also try lowering graphics quality and draw
distance in your viewer. If it's Windows and you haven't
rebooted for a while. virtual memory can get rather fragmented
and usually use up a lot of swapping time when Windows decides
to move things around. A reboot can help when this happens.<br>
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I'd guess that the timer driven diagnostic might trigger a page
swap to bring in a part of opensim that had been swapped out,
and that might trigger the operating system to move a lot of
stuff around which will lock up the system for a while. You
probably don't see it with the "show stats" command as those
pages might already be resident in memory when you invoke the
command.
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