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What exactly is it doing with all of those CPU cycles

Keith Ozsvar
Registered User
Join date: 4 Jan 2007
Posts: 27
01-12-2007 10:56
Second attempt at posting the question below. First one was ignored. Come on guys, don't go into Ostrich-mode on this. Any application that consumes all available CPU from the moment it starts to the moment it ends clearly has serious issues. I'd be embarrassed to release such a thing.

Original question:
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If I stand, alone, in a quiet location, my CPU remains maxed out at 100%. If I stay there for another 15 minutes is stays at 100%. If stay until the system has logged me out, and all I can do is read the chat history, it is still at 100%.

What is it doing? It strikes me that this must be a design flaw. It's as though it's in a really tight poll loop.

I'd be interested to know if the Lindens see this as a bug, and if they are intending to address it.

Regards,
Keith
Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
01-12-2007 13:12
Yes it uses all cycles, nope it isn't a 'bug'. We do indeed run a tight loop. You can see the code for yourself at http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/
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