ChaosNicro

You're completely right, KSPs RAM usage is theoretically fine. The mystery is that more than 2GB disappear upon startup. (not being used as cache or for KSP.). The same amount is returned immediately after closing KSP and I have not the slightest of an idea what it is being used for. According to my system I start out with pretty much 6GB (a tiny bit more) of free Ram before launching KSP. (with the script from OP) I have a total of 8GB installed.

Sorry it took me so long. I am running a 64-bit processor and system and the outputs in order are: vmstat 7952 M total memory 7138 M used memory 3270 M active memory 1420 M inactive memory 813 M free memory 41 M buffer memory 2137 M swap cache 25461 M total swap 0 M used swap 25461 M free swap 37227 non-nice user cpu ticks 421 nice user cpu ticks 12315 system cpu ticks 493819 idle cpu ticks 12818 IO-wait cpu ticks 1 IRQ cpu ticks 68 softirq cpu ticks 0 stolen cpu ticks 2689813 pages paged in 87814 pages paged out 0 pages swapped in 0 pages swapped out 3632672 interrupts 10434409 CPU context switches 1417700784 boot time 5580 forks ps: nicolai 5336 36.3 24.1 4986112 1966940 pts/2 Rsl+ 15:07 2:37 ./KSP.x86_64 nicolai 5755 0.0 0.0 12580 1016 pts/3 S+ 15:14 0:00 grep --color=auto KSP proc status: Name: KSP.x86_64 State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 5336 Pid: 5336 PPid: 4760 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 Gid: 100 100 100 100 FDSize: 256 Groups: 100 482 VmPeak: 4987452 kB VmSize: 4986112 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 1966940 kB VmRSS: 1966940 kB VmData: 4588720 kB VmStk: 472 kB VmExe: 19392 kB VmLib: 35556 kB VmPTE: 4984 kB VmSwap: 0 kB Threads: 18 SigQ: 0/63405 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000000381000 SigCgt: 00000005a08004ec CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: 0000001fffffffff Seccomp: 0 Cpus_allowed: c Cpus_allowed_list: 2-3 Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000001 Mems_allowed_list: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 132109 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 512561 Additionally here is the mod loaders output: KSP: 0.25 (Unix) - Unity: 4.5.2f1 - OS: Linux 3.11 openSUSE project 13.1 64bit USI Tools - 0.2.4 B9 Aerospace - 5.2.6 CIT - CIT_Util - 1.1 CIT - KERT - 1.2.1 Community Resource Pack - 0.2.3 Ferram Aerospace Research - 0.14.4 Firespitter - 6.3.5 RasterPropMonitor - 0.18.3 KSP-AVC Plugin - 1.1.5 Kerbal Engineer Redux 1.0 - 1.0.11.3 KineTechAnimation - 1.1.1 ORSX - 0.1.3 ResGen - 0.28.2 TAC Fuel Balancer - 2.4.1.5 TAC Life Support - 0.10.1.13 MKS - 0.21.3 When swap does activate, it does so with no actual memory left slowing down KSP as well as my system by an unbearable amount. The Firespitter mod is far outdated,it came packaged with two 0.25 mods claiming that it works though.

Try to right-click the script and click "Open with...", then type "bash" into the space for the program name and check "Open in terminal" and "Keep terminal open". Post whatever you get as a result in the terminal as a reply. (This is on a KDE interface, but it should be similar for everything else.)

Hey there, I'm using the latest SUSE and would like modded, I have been experiencing a strange phenomenon though. When launching with about 20 mods (two of them part packs) the process manager shows KSP using 1,3GB of RAM. On the memory manager I can see it taking more than 3GB throughout startup and staying there. (dropping me into swap if I try to install more.) 4GB are free on my system for use. I'm running the standalone 64-bit linux version. Active texture management is installed. Thanks in advance for any help, Nicro

@technicalfool Thanks for the quick answer. I'll be careful with modded stuff

Ok, I've read some posts and I think I understand it now. Still there are two questions regarding mods: Do I need to import a save from the client to get Kathane and Kerbonite to spawn? How can the server keep ticking things like TAC life support when nobody is online? It's still a miracle to me how the server can run without any mod files. Thanks in advance for any answers, Nicro

I'm currently setting up a server and a friend told me that in order to play with mods, only a configured Modcontrol.cfg would be required. I was wondering how this could be possible with worldgen (Kathane/Kerbonite) and ticking modded elements in general. Do I need to provide the files of all installed mods to the server and if yes, how would I go about doing so? Thanks in advance, Nicro

I'm also running this on Linux, its a bit weird but the way to go is: right-click on the EXE file -> open with... -> mono (while "open in terminal is checked) Hope thats clear enough ^^