Unexpected disk usage and stuttering in Syria map

[oznckr]

Hello everyone,

 

I have a problem if anyone give any ideas would be appreciated.

Today i had some stuttering on  DDCS server. I have 32gb rams and on memory page commited charge was over 60 Gb's.

So after i had some stutter i realized it might be an issue about having not enough ram. 

However weird part happened after i shut down dcs.

My hdd which doesnt contain any Dcs folder was keep using after i shut down dcs and it kept reading around 5 to 10mb/s after 10 minutes.

So i thought it might be that i had not space left on my nvme 500gb ssd which is Dcs folder and had not enough space on my samsung 250gb 980 pro which is windows folder, does virtual memory using my hdd and causing stutter on syria map with a lot ground units and many players in same server?

Note

D disk is Dcs folder

C is windows

SS's taken dcs shut down after 10 minutes

I had 10 gb free on my Windows disk and around 10 gb on my Dcs disk when stuttering issua and Hdd usage after shutdown happened.

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by oznckr

[Flappie]

Hi. Chances are your Windows pagefile is stored on your HDD. And you don't want that, because your HDD is certainly the slowest of all your drives.

If that is the case, either let Windows handle your pagefile (it should move it to a fast drive, on its own) or manually move it to a SSD  with plenty of free space (at least 50 GB).

https://mcci.com/support/guides/how-to-change-the-windows-pagefile-size/

Edited February 10, 2023 by Flappie

[Loukuins]

Also the recommanded specs of DCS say that a SSD is recommanded, you might use a SSD for DCS

[oznckr]

On 2/10/2023 at 3:23 AM, Flappie said:

Hi. Chances are your Windows pagefile is stored on your HDD. And you don't want that, because your HDD is certainly the slowest of all your drives.

If that is the case, either let Windows handle your pagefile (it should move it to a fast drive, on its own) or manually move it to a SSD  with plenty of free space (at least 50 GB).

https://mcci.com/support/guides/how-to-change-the-windows-pagefile-size/

 

Thanks, it fixed my problem. 

5 hours ago, Loukuins said:

Also the recommanded specs of DCS say that a SSD is recommanded, you might use a SSD for DCS

I'm using nvme ssd for dcs, and 980pro for windows however, both were out of space, that cause windows use hard disk as virtual memory and it caused a lot of long spikes/freeze. Now i manually set virtual memory for my dcs folder ssd its butter smooth. Probably having 64 gigs of ram would be faster, would upgrade in the future. Thanks for suggestion.

[Flappie]

Yes, 64GB is the way to go. New DCS maps take a lot of memory.