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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:14 am

I just registered my copy of ZMUD last night and would like to know if it is normal for the memory usage to get up to 15,748 K. Another thing I noticed in Windows Task Manager is that ZMUD has created two processes. Can I get the memory usage down? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:31 am

In the future, please only click submit once. You created two threads.

15mb isn't a lot of memory. How much memory do you have? If you have as little as 128mb you should have no problem with that. £350 laptops have 1gb of memory these days - if it really is causing problems, you should be able to buy as little as 128mb very cheaply. Which version of Windows are you using? You might find that closing other programs will help, anyway, if you're running low on memory.

zMUD does create two processes - this is normal. One is the copy protection.

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:36 am

I'm sorry that I created two threads and will be more careful. I have 1 gb of memory in this computer. It is not really causing a problem so much as I notice a slow response when I am typing on the MUD or if I hit the backspace key to delete a command.

Also good to know about the two processes.

Thanks

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Slow response times are generally caused by a bad script being stuck in a loop or the usage of #WAIT. When you notice it happen you be able to get some idea what is going on by opening the Debugger window. Failing that you will have to open your session offline, turn off your triggers, then connect. Turn them back on slowly until you find which one is bad. We may be able to help you rewrite the script for it after that.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

What operating system are you using? If XP, 2000 or NT4 (or Vista, presumably), you can open Task Manager and see what is using the CPU - it may not even be zMUD. (But it does sound like something is using all the CPU if typing is very slow.)

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:44 am

I do not have any scripts so I know that is not the problem. My operating system is Windows 2000 XP Professional and looking at Task Manager, the only process that is taking up the CPU is System Idle and that I believe is normal. There is definitely a faster response time from GMUD than ZMUD so there has to be something wrong.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:08 am

It's Windows XP Professional.

The system does not seem to be slow. I checked the box for "Show processes from all users" and the CPU usage does spike up to 100% when typing in the command line. When I quit typing, the CPU usage drops back down to normal. I have Avast anvirus and Comodo Firewall Pro installed.

No, I'm not running Windows in a virtual machine or a remote machine.

The version of ZMUD is 7.21

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

You could try turning off spell-checking and see if that helps. Preferences, General, Spelling, Spell Checking. Maybe the combination of this, plus your antivirus software is causing a slow down. You could also try turning off your antivirus temporarily to see if that helps.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 110

You say that usage spikes to 100% when typing on the command line- is it Zmud that is going to 100% or some other process? Also, if you type in (for instance) a text document do you get similar results?

Mike

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:31 am

I was thinking it might be ZMUD but it actually was another process that was going to 100%. The process was cmdAgent.exe which is a part of Comodo Firewall. I found several posts with the same issue over at the Comodo forums and tried all the solutions from other users with no luck. So I switched to ZoneAlarm Pro and CPU usage has been in the normal range.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:18 pm

You might also turn off the "Allow any key to be a macro" option in the Preferences. If this option is enabled, then zMUD searches your macro settings each time you press *any* key on the keyboard. If you turn this off, then it only searches for macros on non alphabetic characters, and that can improve command line typing performance.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:32 pm

Thanks Zugg, I will give that a try.