System load seems to have gone up

[Bareth]

For about two weeks, I take have taken notice that everquest is taking up a lot more memory than it has, and my swap file is huge. So tonight, I did a restart, and logging in one character and its showing that everquest is taking up 1,255,368 K of memory. That is quite large, and no wonder when I launch multiple clients, my swap file gets huge. Were there any changes that were made over the past week or two that would cause this?

I have not made any changes on my end, I just know that suddenly im looking at a gig of memory being used for EQ.

[Lillu]

Nothing was changed other than what you see in the change logs. but I don't believe there's anything we could change server side to cause overall client side memory consumption increase, at least not something you would notice. It must be something client side. :/

Did you by chance switch from UF back to Titanium client? I know T client eats a lot more memory.

[Bareth]

Thanks for the quick reply Lillu

I have been running the SoD client. I will try and find out what I changed on my system that could be causing this.

[Bareth]

This does not seem to matter but it looks like the spell file from 2012.10.30.spells_us.zip is in a different language. I swapped back to an earlier spell file, and still the same. Just odd to see the spell file in a format I can't read.

[Lillu]

Not sure what you mean. The spell file is the same as before other than the changes we posted on the news update. They are all zipped text files.

[Micah]

You might wanna unzip it before looking at it though.

[Bareth]

帰䉞啌彅剔䥁幌幞幞幞帰帰帰帰帰帰帰帷㔶ぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞぞⵞ帱ㄭⵞ帱

That is the language that is showing inside the spells_us.txt file when I extract it from the zip. Obviously there is more data than what I posted above I just copied some of the data from the file.

[Lillu]

I assume you are opening the encoded file with a simple notepad. If you want to read it, try to use a more advanced editor like Notepad++

[soberteq]

Did you add models to the global loading file, as suggested in the SoD thread to fix human models?