Memory running away/Memory leak | Project Zomboid | Page 1

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 9:34 AM

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What can I do about this? is there a way to clean up the memory?

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 10:23 AM

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Can you share your logs.zip file found in C:\Users\YourUserName\Zomboid?

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 1:26 PM

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Sure will do, thanks Beard

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 1:45 PM

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📎 logs.zip

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:42 PM

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covert belfry

It shows here that you edited your RAM settings, which shows in your RAM usage

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And a ton of mod errors

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I would recommend keeping the RAM settings to their defaults, you should have no problems with that

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:52 PM

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frozen quartz It shows here that you edited your RAM settings, which shows in your RAM usage

Thank for looking and trying to help. I used these instructions - I didn't realise it was you that had posted this (guessing you're the same person?). The reason I edited them was because RAM usage kept increasing

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:53 PM

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covert belfry Thank for looking and trying to help. I used these instructions - I didn't real...

Yes, same person, but at the same time with different knowledge than from 2019

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Back then we did not use the Z Garbage Collector in the game, therefore RAM changes could help in certain situations

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Since the switch to the new garbage collector and the default RAM being increased to the optimized 3GB, it is really not necessary, and may even cause issues

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:53 PM

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OK - don't worry - I'm not questioning that, just didn't know

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and makes sense. So I need to reset that file.

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:54 PM

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Did your RAM hit 8GB before the change?

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It is normal for RAM to go a bit above the max

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:54 PM

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It was up at 7-8 regularly

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:54 PM

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5-6gb would be expected with your amount of mods

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:54 PM

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coupled with poor game performance. IT's an MP server though with mods - yeah

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so I know it may be mod issues

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:55 PM

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Are you hosting the server?

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:55 PM

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No - just a player

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 2:55 PM

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Can you check if you have Paging memory enabled by the way?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html

Tom's Hardware

How To Manage Virtual Memory (Pagefile) In Windows 10

Follow these simple steps to manually manage the Virtual Memory (Pagefile) size in Windows 10.

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It should be System Managed

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 2:59 PM

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yes it's automatically managed

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Shall I do a clean install to reset that file?

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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You can just delete the file and verify your files through Steam

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It will redownload just that file

covert belfry Sep 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Ok, thanks.

frozen quartz Sep 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Or just change it to the default value of -Xmx3072m

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