Tibia.Dat file reader consuming ~75kb in RAM?

[Puterin]

Sup guys, Puterin here again xD
I was trying to mitigate lag problems of the bot I'm coding and found out where it was consuming that much...
When the Dat_Reader is off (commented) the process is like 6kb; but if I turn it on (not commented xD) the procces will be almost 82kb!!
Is this normal? keep in mind that I'm reading the .dat file, not in tibia's memory... Is this happening to everyone? if not, what would be the normal "kb" it should consume?

Thanks!

@Edited:
btw, If anybody wanna check the .dat reader I use is in here http://pastebin.com/RnusJVHP , forgot I had uploaded 1 month ago to ask something else here =)

[Blequi]

I just see no reason to keep the .dat file loaded into your app holding a huge amount of memory, when you can read an specific item of the .dat file in a few steps that doesn't require any searching through an array.

You can check http://tpforums.org/forum/threads/52...ory-DataReader to see how to read an specific item.

[Puterin]

I just see no reason to keep the .dat file loaded into your app holding a huge amount of memory, when you can read an specific item of the .dat file in a few steps that doesn't require any searching through an array.

You can check http://tpforums.org/forum/threads/52...ory-DataReader to see how to read an specific item.

mmm, you are right, didn't see it that way :/
but one question please, I have read that thread entirely, and also spent a couple of hours reading threads in this forum.
After that I decided to do it your way, and I was going to use that thread you sent me, but also the TibiaAPI which Jash recommended in another post.https://code.google.com/p/tibiaapi/s...emAddresses.cs
And they are not the same! =0

I think this is because in your URL they used

const
  DatPointer = $7B973C;
  StepItems = 136;  //<------only StepITems
  FlagsOffset = 68;  //<------only Flags, nothing more 

while in TibiaAPI they used everything

        public class DatItemAddresses
        {
            public uint StepItems; //<------ StepITems
            public uint Width;
            public uint Height;
            public uint MaxSizeInPixels;
            public uint Layers;
            public uint PatternX;
            public uint PatternY;
            public uint PatternDepth;
            public uint Phase;
            public uint Sprite;
            public uint Flags; //<------Flags
            public uint CanEquip;
            public uint CanLookAt;
            public uint WalkSpeed;
            public uint TextLimit;
            public uint LightRadius;
            public uint LightColor;
            public uint ShiftX;
            public uint ShiftY;
            public uint WalkHeight;
            public uint Automap; 
            public uint LensHelp;
            public uint ClothSlot;
            public uint MarketCategory;
            public uint MarketTradeAs;
            public uint MarketShowAs;
            public uint MarketName;
            public uint MarketRestrictProfession;
            public uint MarketRestrictLevel; 

is all of that really needed?
yes--> for what?

ty Blequi =)

[Blequi]

keep in mind that TibiaApi is a general purpose library and many contributors have helped the project since it was created.

For example, for 99% of the tibia bots dev in this forum, the constants you posted above

const
  DatPointer = $7B973C;
  StepItems = 136;  //<------only StepITems
  FlagsOffset = 68;

are enough for their purpose with their own bots, but I personally use, at least, 90% + of these constants in the datitem class.

As an example, if you want to perfect draw each tibia sprite (as I do), you'll need several of them. On the other hand, if you do not custom draw items, hardly you'll find an use for half of these offsets (mainly the first ones).

[Puterin]

okey dokey, got ya. I'm gonna add now the memory .dat reader, I'll post here results (comparing kb in RAM or %CPU usage) once I have finished.

[Farsa]

you will save a good ammount of memory if you keep the flags as uint/long

[Puterin]

you will save a good ammount of memory if you keep the flags as uint/long

done, thanks for the tip Farsa. (idk why but every single time I'm going to write your name I write "Farse" xDDDD)

didn't post this before due to a fcking bug in my code.... I've been the whole afternoon/night trying to fix it and like 30 min ago I found the problem...
Anyway, here are the pics, check them by yourself :O

with Tibia.dat parser


with Klusbert's function


It really is an incredible change, but now it has to read_memory() each time it wants a flag/name of an item cause it doesn't have them loaded (so it does make sense xD)

I tried with some ID's like brown mushroom, crystal wand, scarf, stamped parcel,etc... and found them,
buuuut, when I tried with Gold/Platinum/crystal Coin(3031,3035,30XX) it didn't work! :O it read "unknown", what could be the reason if the others were right?

@Edited:
loooool, just checked out that those items doesn't exist, or at least the names.... and in one post of Blequi in the thread "Memory Data Reader", those id's aren't in that list of items =0
why is that?

[Diego]

Only the names listed in the market has a name flag, and valuable items for obvious reason are not included.

[Puterin]

Only the names listed in the market has a name flag, and valuable items for obvious reason are not included.

looool that's why!!
kkk LOTS of thx guys, solved =)