High CPU issues with Octopus

[Nikita]

Everytime I fire up Octopus, my whole computer starts to run slow. Mouse movements is in slow motion, with some lagg spikes here and there. My processor is @ 90 to 100 %, but when I close the program the computer is fine. Something Ive set up wrong in octopus settings?

[Ghallo]

What is your setup? Screens etc?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I notice that it uses 25% CPU (in task manager) on mine as well. Not all the time but enough to notice. Never hurt things enough to worry about for WoW, but I did notice it in EVE.

[Nikita]

Well, Ive got 3 computers connected to my main trough octopus. And it seems that everytime I start up octopus and connect my 3 alt computers my main gets slow when doing tasks such as web surfing, loading wow, playing wow. I can run 2 wow clients at the same time on my main without any problems, but the problems starts when I open Octopus.

Spec:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @2,66 GHz 2,68 GHz
6 gig ram
Windows Vista 32 bit
GeForce 9600 GT

Btw, whats the newst version of Octopus? Currently running with 1.3.8 ver

[coglistings]

though I don't think it is this, i'll say it anyway. I notice that programs can hang alot if they encounter dropped packets when waiting from client ank's. id just check that you don't have an excess of dropped packets when you do a simple ping -t from main to other computers. One bad computer nic can cause your entire problem. Can't say why it would be taking up a ton of cpu resources as this wouldn't address that issue. GL on your fix :P

[Nikita]

though I don't think it is this, i'll say it anyway. I notice that programs can hang alot if they encounter dropped packets when waiting from client ank's. id just check that you don't have an excess of dropped packets when you do a simple ping -t from main to other computers. One bad computer nic can cause your entire problem. Can't say why it would be taking up a ton of cpu resources as this wouldn't address that issue. GL on your fix :P

Possible to explain this in a more non technical way? Im no computer geek :P

[Nikita]

Bump

[Khatovar]

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=ping+between+two+computers

[Nikita]

So Im able to ping every computer connected through Octopus and on my network, 4 packets sent, 4 packet recieved, 0 % loss on all connections.

But I tried to reinstall wow and change which folder it was installed on. Seems that it helped alot, but still getting semi slow reactions on my main computer when connected with Octopus. And from time to time my keyboard and mouse switches computer, and the only way to get back to my main screen is by ctrl + alt + del. Log off, then log on. Using Input Director for this. Whats causing this? The connections between my computers seems fine.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Make sure you don't have Octopus set up for KM as it will fight with Input Director if you do. Also, in the input director options, there is a setting that caused the cursor to jump left/right on me, too. If I don't remember to check that tonight, PM me and I'll put it on my list.

[Nikita]

So my alt computer had KM set up, deleted all those settings now. But seems I cant fix this slow response issues on my main computer.

[Ghallo]

One other note, and not Octopus related - 6Gb of RAM on Vista 32 bit means you really only have ~4Gb. This is a limitation of 32bit.

Just so you know ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_Limit

Edit: More detail and from the source:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista

[Nikita]

I know, but been lazy! Gotta do something about it :)

[coglistings]

One other note, and not Octopus related - 6Gb of RAM on Vista 32 bit means you really only have ~4Gb. This is a limitation of 32bit.

Just so you know ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_Limit

Edit: More detail and from the source:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista

even though you aren't seeing an issue while running 2 wow's on the same computer, your page file is probably taking a huge hit on your hard drive once you start moving around ingame if it is RAM limitation limited.

in non techno babble, go into your task manager, and then your resource management button. leave that window visable while you run around first with just your main toon with alt main toon on follow, to see what your hard disk activity is. then do it with octupus and post your observations.

:P

[Nikita]

This problem occured just recently, was able to run 2 wow clients at the same time, until one day it crancked up and I had to reinstall Windows :/ but from a question to another, when my main dies, and I need to switch to an alt which is on another computer, is it possible to run my team from that computer with octopus on the go?

[Nikita]

Bump! Ugh, where art thou my e-net hero?

[Nikita]

Still having problems when running octopus, computer starts to run slow when I fire up octopus. Any suggestions?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

No idea, to be honest. Looking at my task manager just sitting here at the desktop, Octopus is using 13% CPU. This is on an i950 8-core. On my quad core box, which is a slave, it's at 0%. On this box when it was a quad core, it usually sat at 25%. I also notice that if I stop the server, it drops to 0% usage. I have some ideas about it but Skarlot isn't around any more and the source was only briefly available...and I didn't grab it while it was. :/ Maybe Ghallo can poke at that a bit.

[edit] Disregard the CPU thing. It came back up to 13% shortly thereafter.