Re: [pygame] 99 CPU use?

[Bo Jangeborg <bo@softwave.se>]

Its a bit crude, but you could try something like this

   Freq = 60
   time_to_wait = int (1000/Freq)
   while 1:
       pygame.time.wait(time_to_wait)

Bo)


enrike wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am not sure that this has been discussed before. I have been doing 
> some tests and i realised that when I run any of the apps i am 
> building on pygame they take 99 of my CPU. Then if I try to run some 
> other application it takes forever to start up. I noticed this after 
> realiseing that on a mac G4 laptop every time I run the tests the fan 
> would start spinning at max speed.
>
> Is there any way to avoid this? I understand that if you are playing a 
> game you dont probably want to have any other application runnning on 
> top of the game but if you are using pygame to do something that is 
> not exactly a game, like I am, it becomes a problem. In my case i need 
> to have another application "listening" to pygame to produce sound. 
> this is also a process intense process and pygame takes over the 
> system in such a way that it becomes impossible even to start up the 
> sound environment.
>
> thanks!