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July 31, 2002

Since its cool to post pictures of things on your computer, I offer this graph generated by the Linux utility "memusage."

This graph was created by running the "nwserver" program with a new module I downloaded using the HCR or Hardcore Rules. The red line (the one I find interesting) is the total memory usage of the program. Since the server is closed-source, I can only make guesses as to what it is actually doing. Each of the red spikes is most likely where another player joined the game. The huge drop in the middle is probably when the server reset the game world, which it does whenever there are no players logged in. There don't appear to be any memory leaks.

For comparison, here's another graph produced by simply starting the server, waiting for it to completely load, and then shutting it down.