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Re: BF4 PC Memory leaking? 94% Memory usage with 12GB

@bwat47 

I understand, however in my case solved for real! stopped the leak and fall of Fps generated by it, try to put the maximum amount of memory that appears as "recommendable"! minimum 400 and leave!

in my case was thus: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1223/7cu3.png
remembering that my memory is 8GB!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    That is not a fix, that just delays the inevitable and also beats the crap out of your hard drive in the process.  I was doing that but after one of my drives decided to choke to death I decided it was better to just let the game crash when I run out of RAM rather than use a page file.

    I've gone entire days without it happening, but it still happens eventually and sometimes more often.

  • bwat47's avatar
    bwat47
    12 years ago

    @evertonmdz

    I have pretty much the same PF settings (mines set to 4096mb), and I have 16 gigs of ram. I still get this leak. I don't see why pagefile settings would have any effect on a memory leak. The pagefile is only used once the system has run out of memory.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Actually Battlefield only uses virtual memory as an emergency when it runs out of system memory (RAM).

    It shouldn't use VM at all as it's slower and less reliable than RAM when running a program. RAM is there for a reason, I have 16GB of RAM and I have disabled my VM for testing. The leak still occurs with or without VM.

    Setting your PF to your SSD will just shorten it's life immesurably especially with this kind of memory leak that is write intensive. DO NOT set your PF to your SSD.

  • bwat47's avatar
    bwat47
    12 years ago

    There's nothing wrong with having the page file on your SSD. Modern SSD's can hold up to a ton of writes and last years and years. SSD's rarely fail do to running out of writes unless you are constantly abusing it with unusual write heavy workloads. Obviously an application leaking memory like this is an unusual scenerio.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    @bwat47 wrote:

    There's nothing wrong with having the page file on your SSD. Modern SSD's can hold up to a ton of writes and last years and years. SSD's rarely fail do to running out of writes unless you are constantly abusing it with unusual write heavy workloads. Obviously an application leaking memory like this is an unusual scenerio.


    Which is why I stated to NOT set the Pagefile to the SSD. This scenario causes an extraordinary number of writes (reads are irrelevant) to the SSD which in turn shortens it's life. Not something that people will want IMO.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    If you want a memory leak using up your SSD be my guest, this is not normal operation by any means.  People who can afford SSD's generally have plenty of RAM and have no need for a page file unless you need complete memory dumps on system failures.

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