Memory Leak Symptoms?

[Jackdaws]

Hi All,

 

So i read a lot about 'Memory Leak' problem in 2.5 OB

 

What are the symptoms of memory leak? Can anyone explain please.

 

Thanks.

[Boosterdog]

Over a period of time (could be mins or tens of mins or longer) your RAM gets eaten up as the game fails to give back what its used for something but no longer needs (because it written it to a file or the thing is no longer a feature). Then your run out of memory to use and then the game stutters as it struggles to find the RAM it needs and finally it crashes.

 

Its a poor term really as its not leaking so much as being held against its will

[wolle]

Thanks for the explanation. But I personally have not yet observed my system crashing because it is running out of memory in the missions I played. I assume it occurs only with certain missions, i.e. under certain circumstances, and that ED is currently figuring out when it happens. Does any body have a "recipe" (e.g. a certain mission) where this effect occurs? I'd be curious to try it out.

[Jackdaws]

Over a period of time (could be mins or tens of mins or longer) your RAM gets eaten up as the game fails to give back what its used for something but no longer needs (because it written it to a file or the thing is no longer a feature). Then your run out of memory to use and then the game stutters as it struggles to find the RAM it needs and finally it crashes.

 

Its a poor term really as its not leaking so much as being held against its will

 

Ok, cool.. well since the 2.5 update i keep getting crashes randomly... usually after 20 mins or so.. game will stutter/pause then crash and ask if i want to upload the log.

It will crash during single player, editor missions and online which has almost become impossible for me to enter. If i do manage to get into online my frame rate is very low.. cockpit wont render.. then give it a couple of mins and its all good. online crashes seem to be far fewer for some reason? but harder to enter.

 

Im guessing memory leak is whats happening to me? I have uploaded logs to the correct area of the forum but nobody has looked at them and told me anything?

 

Hopefully it is the memory leak thing?

[Dun_Aenghus]

You might want to take a look at how much memory is being used in your task manager while you play - it's entirely possible you're affected by it if you're crashing after 20 minutes. For me, frames are good but things slow down after about 15 or 20 minutes to the point where I can no longer move the mouse around the cockpit. Checked RAM usage and it's nearly all of my 16GB.

[Devrim]

I increased pagefile.sys size up to 32GB (SSD drive). I can't say stutters and crashes are all gone. They are there but the probability of crash has decreased dramatically.

 

Stutters? When I enter a server, I can do nothing because of stutters. Then I enable FPS & timer and I'm watching the timer. When it works fluently, then I know I survived (not crashed) and can continue to play DCS... :\