dear all,

Yesterday i started using the 4gb patch https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

what this does is it changes a setting on th eprogram that is written as 32bit.
the setting it changes is that it will allow 4gb to be used for the program. and not leving a part of the memory for the operating system.
never use it when you have 4gb or less memory on your computer, probably you need to have 8gb internal memory for it to be used (for single log in) 12 for double login. because also java want some memory its self

so using this patch i changed the memory allowens from 2.3gb to 4gb for the istaria aplication.

now chenking in morning light the memery usage did change stil 1.8gb about. but when going to the arena in tyzoon, a memory very heavy area.

first of all the memory usage did go up from 2.3gb to 3.3gb so the idee worked
the comunication delay with chalange was a small bid better stil acword for oldin ( highlevel dwarf) workeble for marble (highlevel dragon)
I also noticed that marble requires less memory to run then oldin. and starting up marble is much quicker then oldin.

so it looks like this is really a matter of over load in communication between server and client. there is a long delay between the client telling the server something and the server resonding back. espicially for oldin. So no real gain here.

later i got also a out of mememory error on oldin, but that was after more time then normal in playing in the Tyzoon area.

seeing this happen. I came to the conclusion that we are not looking ad a memory leak (= memmory slowing filling up with things that cannot be cleared), because if that was the case it would have lasted much longer before the memory would have filled up ( factor of 4 ad least not 1.5 i got), But we are looking ad that either windows or java is not telling that the memory is cleared, because the system is to bussie filling it up and doing other calculations, therefore it doesn't know that the memory is free to be used.

I know these are different things and i think its windows not doing it job properly I have seen that effect also when using excell. if you have two big sheets. and open one then close it and then open the other then the momory use is less then then open one opening the other and then closing the first one. I time this then get corrected when you don't do anything. but keeps if you are doing heavy calculations.

So my conclusion
1) 4gb patch does it job creating more memory for the aplication to run
2) there is to much information send between client and server so that the communication can create a very real delay (about half a minute ithink)
3) windows needs to be told (if possible) to give free cleared memmory.

although this is a software discussion i think this is the right place to post this