[KingJ]

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Originally Posted by KyleSmith I've checked and it is averaging 8%, but maxing 13% sometimes. When I said that was low, KingJ told me it was for 8 cores on a whole, even though I'm unsure how it can be calculated like that as SA-MP only uses 1 core.

CPU usage is calculated based on all available cores, so if you have a single process using all 8 cores, then that process is effectively using 100% of the available CPU capacity.

For the most part, the SA-MP server is single threaded, it does perform operations on a few threads but most of the processing, script processing especially, is only performed on a single thread.

Now, a single threaded application can only use at most one core. So if you're fully utilising 1 core of an 8 core server, the CPU usage will be reported as 1/8 = 0.125, or 13% when rounded up.

Hope that helps explain why 13% CPU usage is considered high.