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A Murloc Raider
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Finding the performance culprit
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| 06-15-07, 09:09 AM | #2 | |
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A Molten Giant
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Check your PerformanceFu and it will show you the memory usage of Addons, which can help alot.
Some of the mods you are running are pretty hefty, but nothing jumps out at me... other than some of your libs. What addons do you use that require Earth, Chronos, Sea, MCom, and Khaos? Auctioneer, AtlasLoot, CensusPlus, are big ones. SCT can be a hog if you turn too much on. DurabilityStatus and DurabilityFu prbably do the same thing? Give us some more info and we'll see what we can see. Big question though: Did this start happening after patch 2.1? If so... it's Blizzard's fault. 
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A Murloc Raider
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I'm using Khaos as a part to config a lot of my addons but I guess it is rather limited what it is used on. And with Khaos comes Sea and Earth, unfortunately. It's been a pretty much permanent problem Pre-TBC. SCT is pretty much default options, except moving the frames a bit about.
Memory usage is a bit high (What with Auctioneer, lootlink, atlasloot etc being loaded) - but WoW is only using approx 500 megs, out of the 2 gigs I got. Also deleted Durabilitystatus.  |
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| 06-15-07, 09:21 AM | #4 | |
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| 06-15-07, 09:40 AM | #5 | |
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| 06-15-07, 09:44 AM | #6 | |
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| 06-15-07, 09:46 AM | #7 | |
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A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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It's not really about how much memory a mod uses as much as it is the CPU cycles. (Though I do prefer keeping my mods under 30-35mb if i can help it!) Fortunately, PerformanceFU will also track this for you!
Generally speaking, mods that keep huge databases are gonna kill your memory usage AND your consume a bunch of your CPU cycles while data is accessed. The biggest cuprits I see in your list: Lootlink Auctioneer (seriously...this is prolly like 20mb at least if you have a lot of data!) Atlas KTM I'm not gonna jump on the "fanboi" bandwagon and say "ZOMG!!11! Ace mods are the best out there!" but in this case, I will definately say there are much better Ace alternatives available for these mods. Lugwig easily replaces LootLink. There is virtually zero database on your computer as it syncs with your server to find items. KCItems and/or Fence do a decent job with most of the basics to replace Auctioneer but it depends how you use it. IMO, some mods are just worth the huge hit to system resources and this is one of them. Just make sure you only have Auctioneer loaded on an AH alt or if you must have it on your main toon, only have it set to load when you go to the AH - then you can just /reload ui to clear it out after you've been. Cartographer replaces Atlas and is completely superior! This mod has it all - shows undiscovered areas, coords, waypoints, mapnotes, mining/herb/treasure tracking, scaling, instance maps, instance loot, etc etc. Best part? It's all seperated into different modules so you can include only what you need and it's mostly Load on Demand so if you don't use something on a particular toon or don't care about instance maps when you're grinding mobs, it doesn't matter. Omen/Threat1.0 really surpasses KTM in every way, shape and form. Since 2.1, a lot of people noticed how much of a beast KTM was. It uses a TON of memory cycles even when you're idle - standing around town. When you are in combat, it has so much data to parse and does so in such a way that it really bogs your system down! The only issue with using Omen in it's current state is that while you can see people who use KTM, they can't see you. :/ Until that's fixed, you prolly wont be able to convince most people to use it and if you're a tank or someone who really needs people to be able to see YOUR aggro, it's not a good idea to switch now. Personally - I'm a mage. No one really needs to see my aggro but me...so I use Omen. About half my guild already uses it and most will likely be converted when it gets to a less Beta-y phase.  That being said, if you really must stick with KTM for whatever reason, pick up KTMCPUManager. The gentleman who's lead designer on Omen/Threat1.0 made this to basically throttle the CPU cycles on KTM when you're not in combat. So...that's about all i have to add. heh. The above mods can all be found at www.wowace.com/files or here on WoWI. </long post> *edit* I just took at look at your screenshot and wow. Ok. Drop mobinfo and pick up MobHealth3. 8mb for that? /cry Thats just so wrong! |
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| 06-15-07, 09:49 AM | #8 | |
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A Molten Giant
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Posted a screenie before I hit Submit.
Auctioneer, Lootlink, MobInfo2, and Epeen would all be classes as "big". MobInfo2 can be updated to MobHealth3. You might also have extra collection options turned on as it should never be this high in memory usage. Auctioneer... it's awesome but fat. I switched to KC_Items/Mendeleev myself.. replaces LootLink too since it relies on PeriodicTable info. You seem to be primarily suffering from what alot of us are... Blizzard's patch. They confirmed that 2.1 brought alot of FPS issues to the community. Our latency and memory usage are normal but our FPS sags to abysmal levels.
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| 06-15-07, 10:25 AM | #9 | |
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A Murloc Raider
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Wow, thanks for a lot and quick replies that are really descriptive and awesome. This is a great community.
I'm having troubles finding Lugwig, Aethra. I can't find it either here or on WoWAce. Also, the reason I'm using this LootLink, is because it got a loot linking bot (Where you can type !item keyword in a whisper to me). Is this available in Ludwig as well? Also, I'm an auction monkey, so I basically must use auctioneer as I've never found an addon that does it just right like that one. I've deleted threat meter since I don't really need in PvP - so that's another thing out of my hair. I thought that Cartographer was just used for saving notes on the map and I do not seem to see any of the additional addons that handles loot. You sure this is the right name? I will be replacing most of these addons so thanks a lot, guys. Last edited by trillex : 06-15-07 at 10:28 AM. |
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| 06-15-07, 10:42 AM | #10 | |
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| 06-15-07, 11:16 AM | #11 | |
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