[DGD] Best method to make a wilderness map

[Noah Gibbs]

There's absolutely a set of limits on this in the .dgd file, though they're easy enough to adjust (and then you need to restart the server).  I think 60MB is above the default limit, so he should probably turn that up significantly if he's going to do that.

Then again, as various people have suggested, if you're preparing to dedicate 60 or more MB to rooms, maybe you need a bit of a different approach.


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 From: RobF <squaretriangle at hotmail.co.uk>
To: All about DGD and Hydra <dgd at dworkin.nl> 
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [DGD] Best method to make a wilderness map
 
On 18/02/2012 02:08, "Mario A. Barragán L." wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to make a big grid of rooms, something like 200x200, i'm
> based in a map
> i have in ascii, i'm using a system of coordinates, and creating clones
> of the rooms, but the memory is going up very quickly, with about 5000
> rooms loaded, the driver uses 60M aprox of ram, and loading new rooms is
> getting slow, is that normal for that amount of objects loaded??

Other people have pitched in with their answers on how to trim down the memory footprint for the rooms (which are all legit suggestions), but I'm full of questions about what was causing the slowdown in the first place, as even without any memory optimization DGD should be able to handle 60 megabytes of loaded rooms.  I thought swapping in the 5001th room would be as quick as the first.  Unless 60 megabytes is exceeding the system's ram and causing a lot of disk access?  Which I doubt is the case.  Or is there some "hard limit" in the configuration which is treated as a virtual limit on RAM which if exceeded will cause swapping anyway?  That wouldn't surprise me, but I haven't endevoured to understand all the configuration options yet.
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