Spring CPU Usage... Multithreaded?

[zerver]

2)When it throttles, it pulls the speed back to 1 Ghz (confirmed from previous experimentations with CPU Burn-In while blocking the fan ducts. My fan is on while playing spring, but not wide open like it is when I'm overheating. CPU-Z verifies that my clock speed stays at the full 2.16 Ghz, and doesn't throttle back.

I think you are talking about SpeedStep. Thermal throttling means the CPU starts skipping clock cycles, and can only be detected by special tools. There is one called ThrottleWatch.

[Caydr]

Whoops, my bad, didnt notice you ran win7. I have no experience pertaining to that.

Please install Win7. Kthxbai.

[zerver]

Microsoft offers a free downgrade to XP this time too. And if you're still not happy, you can upgrade to OS/2 Warp.

[hunterw]

There are already multi-threads on this.

[Auswaschbar]

Name: spring
State: S (sleeping)
....
Threads: 5

[CarRepairer]

Name: spring
State: S (sleeping)
....
Threads: 5

cat /proc/$(ps ux | awk '/spring/ && !/awk/ {print $2}')/status is a troll and you took the bait.

[lurker]

Get process explorer and figure out what threads are active, and what code they are running. Is one nvidia?

[AreaFire]

2)When it throttles, it pulls the speed back to 1 Ghz (confirmed from previous experimentations with CPU Burn-In while blocking the fan ducts. My fan is on while playing spring, but not wide open like it is when I'm overheating. CPU-Z verifies that my clock speed stays at the full 2.16 Ghz, and doesn't throttle back.

I think you are talking about SpeedStep. Thermal throttling means the CPU starts skipping clock cycles, and can only be detected by special tools. There is one called ThrottleWatch.

No throttling detected, 100% CPU

[AreaFire]

Get process explorer and figure out what threads are active, and what code they are running. Is one nvidia?

Next on my list of things to check... I'll post something shortly.

[aegis]

I know I've noticed a sound thread