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One thing I've noticed is that the phrase "CPU hog" has faded from common usage
by keyringlight 9mo ago
One thing I've noticed is that the phrase "CPU hog" has faded from common usage
- MontyCarloHall 9mo agoVery interesting observation. Multicore systems have been fairly standard for the last 10+ years, and while you occasionally notice a misbehaving process hog an entire core, it never visibly impacts system performance because there are still several other idle cores, so you don't notice said "hogs." It's much rarer to see misbehaving multithreaded processes hog all of the cores. Perhaps most processes are not robustly multithreaded, even in 2025. Or perhaps multithreading is a sufficiently complex engineering barrier that highly parallelized processes rarely misbehave, since they are developed to a higher standard.
- KiwiJohnno 9mo ago100%. Its common for non-technical users to complain their laptop is faulty, because it gets hot and the battery drains very quickly. They have no concept of a runaway process in a hard loop causing this.
- hulitu 9mo ago> Multicore systems have been fairly standard for the last 10+ years, and while you occasionally notice a misbehaving process hog an entire core, it never visibly impacts system performance because there are still several other idle cores, so you don't notice said "hogs." Except on Windows laptops. Where, although the computer is idle, your favourite svchost.exe will heat your system and trigger thermal trottling.