horst6

horst6

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I compared my Ryzen 3900X CPU usage with and without Multiplicity running while my secondary PC was off in both cases (which it is 99.9% of the time). For the Ryzen 3 / Zen2 series, the only tool that accurately show cpu usage is Ryzen Master. All other tools will cause CPU cores to wake up from sleep as they measure activity ("observer effect").

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Not really a big issue, but just FYI: When running Multiplicity on a Ryzen 9 3900x system with my secondary computer powered off, most of the cpu cores fail to go to a sleep power state when monitored with Ryzen Master. Out of 12 cores, a maximum of 6 are sleeping (quite frequently only 3). After shutting down Multiplicity, 9 of 12 cores are sleeping. This CPU family is very sensitive to software that has short polling intervals, like almost all HW monitoring tools and

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