Lengthy delay when closing world configuration

Posted by Nick Gammon on Mon 02 Apr 2007 09:35 PM — 5 posts, 14,109 views.

Australia Forum Administrator #0
Has anyone else noticed this? I have been finding recently, that under Windows XP in particular, that if I open the world configuration, and then close it (hit Esc) there seems to be a long pause. Recent testing seemed to show that MUSHclient's CPU utilization went up to about 50%.

It doesn't seem to happen on my development machine (Windows NT), and for a while I wasn't sure if I was imagining it.

Since closing the dialog with Esc shouldn't involve any great processing, I am at a loss to explain what the few seconds of 50% CPU utilization is. In fact, I think under XP any one process is limited to 50% CPU (or maybe it is because I have dual CPUs), so it is doing something, I don't know what, really hard.

If this is happening to other people, then at least it isn't something specific to that particular PC.
USA #1
I've noticed that myself over the last few versions. I thought it was just wine acting up though. I usually either wait it out, or sometimes I've had to kill wineserver and start up MUSHclient again.
USA #2
No problems here. I have a world open with 100k lines, I opened the World Config and then hit Esc. It instantly closed, no delays or memory jumps.
Australia Forum Administrator #3
I don't think it is the buffer size that does it. Now I have got my debugger set up it has stopped doing it <grin>.

I can't put my finger on it, turning scripting off doesn't help, when it decides to do it, it will do it consistently, at other times, nothing happens.
USA #4
I also tried it on my laptop, no problem there either.

What SP are you using?