5 box - 1 machine - 15% CPU Usage?

[Gallo]

So, I remember a hardware post is which someone said that their Q6600, 4gb RAM, was running at 15% CPU load at almost all times. I was having some major lag problems in Shatt the other day (I have yet to do the nagle ack change) and I was wondering what my usage was. I opened Task manager and I was at 95% CPU on all cores, and 3.8gb of my 4gb RAM is used. Does anyone else have this problem?

I'm running a Q6600, 4gb RAM, 8800GT 512mb, Vista64. I run my windows at 800x600 and have the maxfps at 40 and maxfpsbk set at 15 for all windows. Most of my video settings are turned down in WoW. I don't normally have tons of trouble, but I was wondering is that 15% CPU load claim was true. Am I getting hosed?

[Kaynin]

I run 4, sometimes 5 box on one computer, usually at 75% load of my PC, in the evening busy hours in shatt, I experience client loss occasionally and instead of mounting through I tend to walk through which seems to work.

Shattrath and the AH in Orgrimmar so far are the only two places I have experienced this amount of lag. I rarely ever lag anywhere else.

Got a core2quad 2.4Ghz, 4Gb ddr3, EN8800 ultra 768Mb.

I run my toons in a 4 box at near max settings, each WoW assigned to their own core.
I run my 5 box with main at max settings and the other four at low settings, running the four alts at a core each and no core assigned to my main.

Shattrath at non busy hours is like anywhere else though, no lag for me.

[Gallo]

This makes me feel a little better. I am almost 65 now, and I jsut started running through Shatt. MAN is it tough to fight through the lag once you land off the gryphon. My other characters have a hard time following the main.

I'll try the Nagle trick and chaulk it up to busy areas.

[Khazrael]

So, I remember a hardware post is which someone said that their Q6600, 4gb RAM, was running at 15% CPU load at almost all times. I was having some major lag problems in Shatt the other day (I have yet to do the nagle ack change) and I was wondering what my usage was. I opened Task manager and I was at 95% CPU on all cores, and 3.8gb of my 4gb RAM is used. Does anyone else have this problem?

I'm running a Q6600, 4gb RAM, 8800GT 512mb, Vista64. I run my windows at 800x600 and have the maxfps at 40 and maxfpsbk set at 15 for all windows. Most of my video settings are turned down in WoW. I don't normally have tons of trouble, but I was wondering is that 15% CPU load claim was true. Am I getting hosed?

Gallo, how do you run your instances of WoW off the hard drive? Do you have one hard drive with a single installation that you run off of, do you have multiple installations, do you have multiple hard drives?

[Gallo]

I have 1 hard drive. I used to run 5 folders of WoW, but my instance load times and login times were horrendous. I then switched to 1 folder of WoW, and found it a lot faster. I often reccomend this to newbies on these forums who have speed issues. I never got into the symbolic link method, but from what i understand, the difference is marginal.

[Khazrael]

I have 1 hard drive. I used to run 5 folders of WoW, but my instance load times and login times were horrendous. I then switched to 1 folder of WoW, and found it a lot faster. I often reccomend this to newbies on these forums who have speed issues. I never got into the symbolic link method, but from what i understand, the difference is marginal.

There probably isn't a difference in symbolic links if you run one folder for performance, but it does allow you to have different settings for each instance. Do you just play with your graphics settings turned all the way down, even your primary account? Or do you play at kind of a mid level, which means you have to do that for all your instances?

I have my primary account jacked up all the way to max, while my clones are pretty much all the way down to the minimum. I haven't encountered shat yet as my guys are only level 32, but when I run through Orgrimmar I have no load times beyond the initial load which would happen regardless of multi-boxing. Also, I assume then you are managing your core affinities through keyclone? From what I could tell, you could only specify individual cores, but wow is capable of handling up to two cores and you can specify this using the processorAffinityMask variable in the config.wtf file.

I specify my primary account to explicity run across two cores that aren't the first so that they don't share times with the OS and other background applications, then all my others are spread across the 4 pretty evenly.

[Gallo]

Yeah, I'm definitely spread the affinities out. I also don't run my main from Core0. I'll just have to chaulk this up to normal Shatt lag.