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Good points Sven. I know that I allow nothing else running here, when in POTCO, but others may not see the same thing. My bad assumption is that everyone responding to this poll is clever enough to turn off everything else their computer has running, when playing POTCO. I admit that 56-100 is too restrictive a range - my assumption was that anyone having over 50% use, does not have hyperthreading, but does have a serious CPU utilization issue...narrowing that down into more logical "chunks" wouldn't help that grouping.
OfxZeppers, again, that wasn't the purpose of this poll. This was to estimate how many people, like me, are affected by the run-away key-reader thread causing permanent preemption of the garbage collector. Why? Well, I'm trying to figure out the rhyme and reason of the dinghy loading screen glitch. My theory about that, remains that the ship's captain's computer has run out of memory (because of the garcol being precluded.)
Indeed, now the survey results show an even greater proportion of the respondents apparently affected by the memory leak (caused by the permanent preemption of the garcol.) Not surprising to me, that matches the approximate frequency that I get the loading screen glitch, when boarding someone else's boat from a dinghy.
The one surprise I have latched onto, from the responses here, is that the run-away may be limited to laptop configurations.
Anyhow,
A follow-up poll of those affected by the over-cpu utilization problem, would be a first-step investigation towards solving the coding error that causes the cpu run-away. But that doesn't help this poll, which simply is trying to estimate the magnitude of the problem. I.e., what percentage of pirates are affected, vs. what percentage of pirates' computers run cleanly.
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