Nevertheless, the CPU usage and memory usage of Director projectors on
Windows is always horrifying. Even when playing with the
idlehandlerperiod and cpuhogticks and even with a very small stage and
no action at all, I did not get cpu-usage below 60%.
regards, Florian
Sam Bennett wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: <lingo-l> processorspeed/multitasking/multiuser
>
> >As far as the CPU-usage goes on the PC I was also alarmed to learn this.
> Our
> >PC programmers didn't seem too alarmed though. They thought it was curious,
> >but felt that the Projector relinquished CPU usage well enough for other
> >background programs and events to take place. I cannot offer any expertise
> >here only the reactions of our staff.
>
> Hey Chad Mefford and Others-
>
> Had a problem with a little program that was designed to run minimized
> most of the time- it was taking all of the CPU cycles it could get- using
> 100% resources. Checked out "idleHandlerPeriod" and set it lower than it's
> default. (It's default is to receive idle messages as often as possible,
> which obviously was eating processor) Play with that and see if you can get
> less than 100% usage. Of course, this depends on what you're doing. Our
> little program just sat there most of the time. We did some tests for
> performance vs. CPU usage and found a happy medium. Also, we weren't
> concerned with idleLoadTag or any of that stuff- not sure how setting this
> would affect those processes.
>
> example:
>
> on startMovie
> --once per second (60 ticks)
> the idleHandlerPeriod = 60
> end startMovie
>
> on idle
> nothing
> end idle
>
> --samn--
> boom-sha-lacka-lacka-boom
> ('scuse me miramar, but i wish
> you were someone else)
>
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