CPU use by POTCO on your computer

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by OFxZeppers

CPU usage may vary from system to system, depending on configuration, cpu speed, hyperthreading, dual/quad processors, etc.

It may not be directly comparable in many situations/combinations.

I don't recall asking for a direct comparison. A direct comparison, would be that using this same computer to serve numerous databases over a wide area network, I never saw over 5% cpu use, no matter what table rebuilds were in progress. A direct comparison would be saying that playing other games, I never saw over 5% cpu use, until POTCO.

But that isn't the point of this poll. Rather, it is to estimate what percentage of people playing, suffer from the run-away key-reader thread, that causes permanent preemption of the garbage collector. So far, it looks like about 2/3rds of the respondents, do.

In that light, a more detailed investigation of configurations, speed, hyper-threading, dual/quad, etc., is entirely irrelevant. Which is what makes this a useful poll. An estimate of CPU use is entirely relevant, as it has been ignored for so very long. For POTCO, the relative use of a system's CPU resources is a nearly perfect indication of what barriers exist.