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Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to reduce the load on Sphere?

Since it's not multi threaded (yet?) I was wondering if anyone had any tips, or know of the biggest cpu-using parts?

As it stands, my server makes use of about 85% of what it can (a single core out of the 4 the server has), but can occasionally spike (probably a bad script somewhere).

However, it shouldn't really be sat at 85% with around 85 players on.. What could be done to reduce cpu usage?

I've been told TIMERF is a key one, but we only use it once and only rarely. Then there is loops, which there is a reasonable amount, but 60 odd loops running at once should not have such an impact, but maybe it does?

Today we had it spike quite badly out of nowhere.. i guess someone hit a script thats not very well built. Some of our code is 12 years old or older, I've only been running the place for 4 years, 2 of which were downtime. So many hands have touched our scripts, and so many of them need tidying, but want to deal with the most cpu heavy ones first.