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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: SimTower and 1.99p9...
- Date: 29 Dec 1995 04:56:56 -0700
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- >>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Knirsch <phil@spinach.mpik-tueb.mpg.de> writes:
- In article <199512291014.LAA03853@spinach> phil@spinach.mpik-tueb.mpg.de (Philipp Knirsch) writes:
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- Philipp> Hi folks... I have a small problem (really only a small
- Philipp> one), maybe someone can give me a hint what it might be.
-
- Philipp> I am playing SimTower now for quite a while on E/D (as it
- Philipp> is the fastest way to play it on my machine), and it
- Philipp> worked pretty stable since 1.99p2. But with the latest
- Philipp> release i have a really wierd problem: If i let the game
- Philipp> run for a while it seems to suck up more and more memory
- Philipp> and finally either hangs totaly or jumps back to DOS with
- Philipp> one of those error messages. I didn't note it down yet,
- Philipp> but i will when it happens the next time. I tried
- Philipp> changing the sound setup, as this changed the speed of
- Philipp> E/D massively with my machine and SimTower (runs much
- Philipp> slower with sound on, but that was what i already
- Philipp> expected). I also fiddled with the other options around
- Philipp> but that didn't help either.
-
- This is probably due to a "memory leak". We introduced a memory leak
- in 1.99p7 and have fixed it internally here (in what will either be
- 1.99p10 or 1.99q, we're not sure what to name it). However, I don't
- know if the particular leak we fixed is what's causing the trouble in
- SimTower.
-
- Philipp> But now to something completely different: Can someone
- Philipp> tell me how much a complete ardi mirror would be? As i am
- Philipp> the sysadmin here at our lab i could set up a mirror of
- Philipp> either vorlon or ardi every night if it wouldn't take up
- Philipp> too much space. This would then be a european mirror
- Philipp> which could reduce the time especially for the people
- Philipp> over here getting the newest executor.
-
- Currently ~ftp on ftp.ardi.com takes up 131 Meg. Most of that (105
- Meg) is contained in the various OLD subdirectories which are much
- less important to mirror than everything else. Melissa suggested that
- we move all the OLD stuff into a separate archive directory at the
- root of ftp.ardi.com's ftp area so that smaller mirrors could avoid
- mirroring /archive. I haven't yet agreed to such a change because I
- wasn't aware of any potential mirror sites that would be able to take,
- say 30 MB, but not 130 MB.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-