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    Administrator Dyyryath's Avatar
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    Ridiculous Memory Usage (Again)

    I was really hoping they'd gotten this straightened out. *sigh*

    I started noticing that several of my machines running the DF client were starting to drag. Upon closer examination, I found this:



    That's right, my two folding clients eating up nearly 1gb of RAM. Ugh. I've since changed every one of my clients to use less RAM (-rf). This is going to hurt my production, but I just don't have the time or interest to micro manage a bunch of machines because the client software can't behave.
    "So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men." - H.G. Wells

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    I expect that is the reason that my diskless nodes keep falling over. At this point, I'm just replacing DF with something else when it happens. Still have a couple running, but it doesn't appear they will last through the weekend.
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    yes, i am restarting my windows clients a couple times a week to clear out the memory

    stopping and restarting the service works for me
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    And what is Howard's response?

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    I don't think that this ever stopped happening. It was just not as critical on the smaller proteins. The OSX client used to do this really bad, I had a cron job that stopped the client in the middle of the night and then restarted it a minute later.

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    Someone should really DO something about all the people falling victim to cron jobs!
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    Man no shiznit. Been running DF for 3.5 days and it had eaten 45MB extra RAM till I restarted just now.

    Hope the new client released today fixes this.
    Agent Smith was right!: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell! If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

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    From what people are saying it the new one seems to be working well.
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