[DGD] Lag and swapout()

[Felix A. Croes]

David Rose <narkaulov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if anybody might have experienced this problem before or
> might be able to point me in the right direction.  Last two times we have
> restarted the our dgd driver (1.4) we have gotten serious issues with lag,
> particularly with logins and logoffs.  This tends to happen within the first
> month of uptime.  When this happens manually forcing DGD to swap by calling
> swapout() takes care of the issue.  Oddly enough though, we have swapout()
> being called weekly in a cron job.  I am currently trying to figure out what
> exactly is causing this so we can prevent it from happening again so I am
> open to any and all suggestions.  I apologise if this might be off topic for
> this list, but I am about at my wits end.

I think we have resolved this on Igormud, but lag resolved by swapout()
is typically caused by OS swapping.

Regards,
Felix Croes