Re: [pygame] 99 CPU use?

[enrike <enrike@altern.org>]

hi

I have set the framerate down to 20 and it makes a difference (comes 
down to 45-60 CPU use), but it is also slower of course.
Is there any tutorial where I could check optimising tricks or techniques?

thanks again



Michael wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Limiting your framerate seems to make a big difference. Look at the 
> clock part of pygame for info. A lower framerate means less cpu usage. 
> Also you can try running the program as nice so that it doesn't block 
> other processes as much.