Lag - game slowing over time - sys / profiler info

[zleap]

Just noiticed the game slows down over tiime and on the advice from the #0ad channel i have upgrded to the latest build as of 29/4/13

looking at the google search for the issue I have put on my website

system spec and profiler information which according to the faq may help diagnose the issue, the spec is there to help the developers so they know what I am running

I am running this on Lubuntu 12.10 clean(ish) install as i re-installed last week

http://zleap.net/0ad-dignostic/

the profile is from /home/psutton/.config/0ad/logs/profile.txt

hope this helps and sorry if this is in the wrong location.

[Burzum]

Run top in your terminal and list the results here.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Burzum

[zleap]

Ok will do next time I play the game and it slows down

[Josh]

Another thing you may want to try when it starts slowing down: save your game, exit 0AD, re-open 0AD and load your game. This typically at least slightly improves the performance for awhile.

[zleap]

Run top in your terminal and list the results here.

I am not sure if this is right, i ran top > top.txt and then did ctrl-c to stop it other wise it would just fill up the file with the output from top

is there a proper way to direct top output to a text file

I will have another go anyway.

[H[J[?25l[?1c[0;10mtop - 22:54:56 up 6:52, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.33, 0.26[0;10m[39;49m[0;10m[39;49m[K

Tasks:[0;10m[39;49m[1m 145 [0;10m[39;49mtotal,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 2 [0;10m[39;49mrunning,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 142 [0;10m[39;49msleeping,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0 [0;10m[39;49mstopped,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 1 [0;10m[39;49mzombie[0;10m[39;49m[0;10m[39;49m[K

%Cpu(s):[0;10m[39;49m[1m 6.7 [0;10m[39;49mus,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 1.6 [0;10m[39;49msy,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0.0 [0;10m[39;49mni,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 90.9 [0;10m[39;49mid,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0.8 [0;10m[39;49mwa,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0.0 [0;10m[39;49mhi,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0.1 [0;10m[39;49msi,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 0.0 [0;10m[39;49mst[0;10m[39;49m[0;10m[39;49m[K

KiB Mem: [0;10m[39;49m[1m 1805236 [0;10m[39;49mtotal,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 1666724 [0;10m[39;49mused,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 138512 [0;10m[39;49mfree,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 115928 [0;10m[39;49mbuffers[0;10m[39;49m[0;10m[39;49m[K

KiB Swap:[0;10m[39;49m[1m 1832956 [0;10m[39;49mtotal,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 72 [0;10m[39;49mused,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 1832884 [0;10m[39;49mfree,[0;10m[39;49m[1m 876176 [0;10m[39;49mcached[0;10m[39;49m[0;10m[39;49m[K

[7m PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m[1m 5449 psutton 20 0 380m 90m 24m R 95.3 5.1 0:24.38 pyrogenesis [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 1173 root 20 0 99.8m 81m 14m S 19.1 4.6 10:05.87 Xorg [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 1 root 20 0 3504 1920 1244 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.19 init [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.02 ksoftirqd/0 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.92 kworker/u:0 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 migration/0 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 watchdog/0 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 migration/1 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.12 ksoftirqd/1 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 watchdog/1 [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 12 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kdevtmpfs [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 sync_supers [0;10m[39;49m

[0;10m 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default [0;10m[39;49m

hope this helps

Paul

[Yves]

I don't really know what the output of "top" could help.

Since the performance is getting worse later in game it seems to be a known Problem which is mainly pathfinding and AI related.

We don't need more information on that, it just needs to be improved.

Things you can do in the meantime to get better performance:

• Play with less units (low population cap, low number of players)
  
• Disable some graphics settings.
  
• Play on small maps with few trees
  
• Play multiplayer without AI players