Memory usage...

[Vitz]

Is this merely a symptom of the application being in alpha, or is it by design that downloads are seemingly stored into system memory in their entirety (albeit temporarily)? My system is able to cope with it, but I can imagine people running into real problems when they're downloading a mod like Old World Radio, which is a whopping 6GB in size and makes Vortex's memory usage skyrocket to 5-6GB. 16GB of RAM is still considered a luxury these days (especially with the current memory prices) and having Vortex use up to 6GB of RAM in a system that only has 8 could result in some less than desirable situations. Imagine what downloading several larger mods simultaneously would do.

 

NMM was notoriously bad at handling large files. So far Vortex has installed large mods quite consistently without issue, but its current memory usage could still throw a wrench in the works. Would this be a temporary problem with a planned solution or is this just how it's going to be?

[NoShotz]

yeah, can confirm the insane memory usage when downloading OWR, good with i have 16gb of RAM.

[Tannin42]

There is a difference between how much memory an application uses and how much it requires.

Files being downloaded are stored to disk in chunks of 256kB, so it doesn't _need_ more than that to download a file (on top of the regular memory requirement for the application itself of course).

But giving back memory also costs performance so the memory management (which is part of the backend, not our code) may decide to hold stuff in memory that it doesn't actually need until the memory is actually required by something else.

 

Unless there is a memory leak (which I saw no indication of) this is neither something we can fix nor is it a problem, that memory will be made to other applications when they need it.

 

I've tested Vortex on a Virtual Machine with 1GB of memory total and it works fine and is still able to download large files.

[Vitz]

Ah, that's good to know! Thanks, Tannin. I was hoping for it to be something like that. Mods aren't exactly getting smaller these days so I'm glad this won't be a problem.

[TheGreatFalro]

As they say, empty memory is wasted memory.