My observations on vanilla 3.1.1

[slinberg]

7) On OS X, when I rest it pegs out my CPU. Resting for a few thousand turns takes a LONG time, I see the turns click by 100 at a time in slow motion. Surely this shouldn't max out a Core Duo?

Resting pegs my 8-core Mac Pro with 6 gigs of RAM. Nothing that Angband can do should possibly take any noticeable time on a machine capable of calculating the trajectory of every atom in a nuclear explosion. Something must be wrong. Fixy please?

[takkaria]

7) On OS X, when I rest it pegs out my CPU. Resting for a few thousand turns takes a LONG time, I see the turns click by 100 at a time in slow motion. Surely this shouldn't max out a Core Duo?

Resting pegs my 8-core Mac Pro with 6 gigs of RAM. Nothing that Angband can do should possibly take any noticeable time on a machine capable of calculating the trajectory of every atom in a nuclear explosion. Something must be wrong. Fixy please?

Bizarre. On my comparatively slow Core Duo lowest-spec MacBook, resting for a few thousand turns makes is basically unnoticeable and doesn't max ou the CPU at all. Are you both on OS X 10.5?

[Bad Tempered Geezer]

I'm on a 3.06 GhZ iMac with 4 GB RAM, and there is no lag with resting; it's practically instant. I'm running the latest OS, 10.5.7. Something really is wrong (On your end, I think) if you have performance issues with Angband.

[bebo]

i think maybe one of the reasons for the slower performance in 3.1.1 / 3.1.2 is that now light source fuel goes down by 1 every action you take (or whatever the conversion rate is based on speed). Before it went down in chunks of 500 i think? Maybe that's causing the slowdown when running / resting. Which in any case is minimal, at least in my laptop. In any case i don't think the issue is only mac related.

[buzzkill]

Angband seems kinda slow in the shops too. There is a lag between buttons press when buying and selling stuff.

[Pete Mack]

Is this in ASCII mode or in GFX?

[buzzkill]

DVG 32x32 with 12x24 font.

[Bad Tempered Geezer]

I'm on a 3.06 GhZ iMac with 4 GB RAM, and there is no lag with resting; it's practically instant. I'm running the latest OS, 10.5.7. Something really is wrong (On your end, I think) if you have performance issues with Angband.

Never mind. I updated to the latest nightly build, and I am having this problem now. There is huge lag and CPU usage when resting, and lag/strangely high CPU usage when running as well. I can see my character take every step of the run, as opposed to the basically instant running I'm used to. I know someone running Windows (on another pretty powerful computer) who also had the problem.

EDIT: By the way, Buzzkill has 666 posts. Is it just chance that that happened now, or is that a fixed postcount?

[buzzkill]

EDIT: By the way, Buzzkill has 666 posts. Is it just chance that that happened now, or is that a fixed postcount?

Just 6000 more posts till the end of the world .

[Bad Tempered Geezer]

Aww, it's 668 now! Well, it was nice while it lasted.

[slinberg]

Bizarre. On my comparatively slow Core Duo lowest-spec MacBook, resting for a few thousand turns makes is basically unnoticeable and doesn't max ou the CPU at all. Are you both on OS X 10.5?

10.5.8, yup. No unusual tweaks to my machine. It does plenty of other things plenty fast.

With the phial as a light source, resting on level 1 with nothing in view, a rest of 2500 turns took 15 seconds by the clock.

[bebo]

Is this in ASCII mode or in GFX?

ascii in my case

[ewert]

I also have slow (but not as bad as slinberg, ouch) resting, laggy shops etc. Vista Home Basic, Phenom x4 9950, ascii mode, so aside from Vista (haha) no reason at all for the slowness. For me it is not too annoying, unless need to farm some vital shop item from town by lvl1 dipping ...

[Slow]

It seems that everyone who has the problem is using a multi-core processor so maybe you could try to configure Angband to only use one core (if it doesn't already) or disable some cores altogether.

[Bad Tempered Geezer]

It seems that everyone who has the problem is using a multi-core processor so maybe you could try to configure Angband to only use one core (if it doesn't already) or disable some cores altogether.

Well,

On my comparatively slow Core Duo lowest-spec MacBook, resting for a few thousand turns makes is basically unnoticeable and doesn't max out the CPU at all.

That doesn't seem to be the problem.