Serious Memory Leaks In Dungeon zone

[Hargoth]

Not every zone exhibits the serious memory leak, but the dungeon area on the coliseum sure does.  I have been wondering about it for a few days, and finally tested it tonight.

Running top, I can watch the: VIRT and RES
climb steadily up by as much as 5 MB every 5 second interval (top update).

When psc reaches about 950MB RES size, my system starts to SWAP, of course, and becomes unusable.  I have 1GB RAM.

If I keep top open in another window, and exit the game any time psc reaches 800MB or so, I can go all night with no difficulties.

I spent about an hour in Hades, with no appearent growth in psc RES.  That clearly indicates a zone tuning issue.

Hope this helps others!

Fedora Core 4
-> uname -r
2.6.14-1.1653_FC4
kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4-1.0.8178-0.lvn.1.4.i686.rpm
nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm

[AryHann]

May I ask if you had sound on or off?

[kmare]

i have exactly the same problem.. sound is enabled, but it plays back only the combact music (when i attack someone of course). I\'m using gentoo..

[AryHann]

Try to keep sound off and see what happens!

[Hargoth]

Sound off does help a ton!  However, over about two hours of play, it did grow from 300 to 600MB in size.

[AryHann]

That is probably related to some other leak, e.g. in the windowing system, which it should have been fixed already in CVS.