server CPU time

leigon · Post by **leigon** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:48 am

how about making a third option....

Uising free cpu time when possable insted of being fully on or in "lazy mode"

Post by **Mit** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:19 am

thats quite spooky. i separately had the same thought just last night and so added that very option... It improves ping responses on servers by about 60ms in most cases compared to lazy mode, but doesnt seem to overly affect the running of the machine.

leigon · Post by **leigon** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:27 pm

what made you think about it?

I was thinking of the old Floding days

leigon · Post by **leigon** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:26 am

I tryed it... I still have 60+ free cpu at any time...

same as usual...

leigon · Post by **leigon** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:27 am

nearly forgot... if your having trouble take a look at the distrobuted folding sorce... they have a tryed any tested mode.

Post by **Mit** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:52 am

if you've still got free cpu time it means it doesnt need any more, leig

My code's just *that* efficient :] Most of the time there isnt much for it to do anyway.. generally its just sitting there waiting to react to a message from a player.

The medium mode is looping once every 20ms or so - any faster and ya can start getting weirdness in some of the calculations it does (some assume that at least 1/100th of a second has passed since the last update). If you really reallly wanna get some more of your CPU time used, the best answer is prolly to get another world running