Why don’t they download more CPU? Are they stupid?
Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 days agoI love that people get upset that their CPU is using its resources when they're using it.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I want my cou to be idle all the time! Damn it why did I spend so much on a CPU only for it to “do work”? FFS.
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Reminds me of how some people get upset when their OS uses up all their RAM, no matter how much they have. It’s like they want their PC to be sluggish and unresponsive. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
Buckshot@programming.dev 3 days ago
Did a project several years where the customrr required that the server we delivered specifically for the project never use more than 50% CPU or RAM. No requirements about how fast it actually performs its intended function, just that it can only utilise half the available resources while doing it.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Probably a bleed-over from the embedded side. Spent a lot of years working embedded control systems for NASA and DoD - bare metal systems, often interrupt driven - and it was common to have 50% margin requirements. They know those systems will grow over time, and they often have lifespans measured in decades.
Buckshot@programming.dev 3 days ago
That would make sense, i hadn’t put that together but they had a lot of embedded control systems. This was water treatment but entirely separate from the control systems but i can see them having that a standard requirement
addie@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Yeah, we have that with our customers sometimes. To me, an app should either be running full whack - maxing out bandwidth on CPU, disk, memory or network - or completely idle. Chuntering along at 2% is a bug. For the ones that put ‘monitoring tools’ that raise errors when we reach 100% on something, we set a Linux CGroup to throttle the offending resource. Takes longer, obviously, but not worth arguing with their network deployment teams 🤷 .
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That RAM is mint condition collectors edition RAM.
Don’t you dare fucking touch it.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
My software does that anyway because I can’t be arsed with multithreading or a 64 bit version
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Actually, I’m kinda sad that my laptop doesn’t get close to maxing my RAM cause I specifically bought another stick to make it 16GB. This was back when I was using Windows but now I’m bloat-free on Fedoora. I need to get into gaming on my laptop instead now lol.