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Title: Worried About Memory
Post by: spork22 on July 14, 2014, 08:19:07 PM

Is it possible to clear the mutation count or cycle count in a simulation? For some reason, the possibility of it using up too much memory always bugs me..

Also, does it autosave on it's own, or does it have to be activated for each simulation run?

Title: Re: Worried About Memory
Post by: Botsareus on July 15, 2014, 12:14:17 PM

Computers do not work that way. The best way to crash darwinbots for memory was to run a huge randombot simulation with each bot having 32K numbers for at least a week on a powerful comp.

Title: Re: Worried About Memory
Post by: spork22 on July 15, 2014, 07:01:49 PM

Oh. Ok. I'm that kind of guy that spastically saves things e_o

Title: Re: Worried About Memory
Post by: Botsareus on July 16, 2014, 02:06:46 PM

Yea, I used to be that way too.

Title: Re: Worried About Memory
Post by: Botsareus on July 19, 2014, 12:54:57 PM

Yea computers generally crash if they can not handle even a single number over 32K.

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Oh. Ok. I'm that kind of guy that spastically saves things e_o

I was doing that for a chance to preserve my sanity you spying ahole!

Title: Re: Worried About Memory
Post by: Numsgil on July 20, 2014, 03:15:11 PM

If you want to get an idea of how much memory DB is using, you can use the task manager and see how large it's Memory is.  ie: press ctrl+shift+esc and look through the "processes" tab for Darwinbots.

In practical terms I think the VB6 runtime limits the memory to 2 GB, so if you have much more than that DB at least won't steal all your system resources.  In practical terms though I doubt the you'll get much more than a few hundred MBs from a sim.  But I could be wrong :D