Dedicated Server Memory Leak - how do you handle restarts?

[thornx]

Hello everybody. How do you handle server restarts with your dedicated server?

 

 

In about 9-12 hours our server runs out of memory (I guess due to leaking). dcs.exe starting with 4GB per process (4 Instances on 1 server). 12 hours later the process is about 7 GB.

 

With version 50979 one server restart in 24 hours was sufficient. Currently we need 2-3.

 

13:00 8.89 GB free space (32GB total available)

01:00 1 GB remaining

04:00 out of memory

[HC_Official]

batch file , on a scheduled task

[ElementLT]

here is the batch file we currently use for 1 of hour servs. Will start then restart your DCS server every 8 hrs. Change to fit your needs.

 

StartDcs.Bat

@echo off

:Start
Start "" /high "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta Server\bin\DCS.exe" --norender --server

:loop
timeout /t 28800>null
taskkill /f /im DCS.exe >nul
timeout /t 15>null
goto Start

[Mr_sukebe]

I don't restart the server, but I do auto-stop missions at around the 6 hours mark.

Within the ME, there's an "end mission", that can easily be set.

For my server, I have a number of different missions on loop. If I were going with a single mission, I'd probably setup several versions, to cover normal daytime, night time and maybe poor weather conditions, just to add some spice to things.

[Ebein]

We pause the servers when noone is on, and we have a mission reset target near the 'starting base', I also do at least weekly restart of our servers.

[thornx]

Thank you for your answers. There are some very good ideas (a restart target, mission loops, auto-stop, batch scripts ...)