[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12712) Harbours do not work

["Marcel Edward Verhagen" <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12712 >

On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:26, vitke wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12712 >
>
> Hi guys
>
> I picked up 2.0.99-devel and harbors do not have effect.
>
> Another funny thing that is present in 2.0.0-beta7 is that AI under
> Despotism use 100% of taxes for science, which is not allowed to me. Is
> this a bug or did you intend to make it harder?
>
> Third thing is that 2.0.0-beta7 server was slow, but 2.0.99-devel is taking
> more than an hour on my 1GHz/768MB  machine to turn a round in an early
> stage of the game, on the table of maximal size, with 30 players. I know
> it's big, but one hour... I kept playing, and then the time needed to
> turn a round turned back to the level of beta7.
>
> Shall I send you the sav.gz files? It may be like 20MB all together.
>
>
> Dragan

The time between turns on my pc is measured is seconds, in a later stage on a 
large map with 10 players maybe a minute.

I've got a few hints to make freeciv run faster. 

Try to compile freeciv with the gcc4 compiler. The gcc4 compiler produces 
significant faster executables than the gcc3 compiler. (The devolpers claim 
that the applications compiled with gcc4 executes 25% faster than the 
executables gcc3.4 produces.)

The main cause for applications to run slow is the disk cache. When a program 
needs more memory than there is availiable for an application to in then it 
will use the disk cache. Try to figure out how much memory freeciv uses. (my 
pc has only got 256mb, freeciv uses something between 96mb and 156mb on my 
machine.)

Maybe you could try to use another window manager (A lightweith window manager 
like XFRC uses less memory than gnome or kde uses.)

Marcel