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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe (techtrenches.substack.com)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

I don't trust some of the numbers in this article.

Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines

I'm literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I've already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.

Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that's usually a sign of a deeper issue).

Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, it's also stupid to use RAM size as an indicator of a machines CPU load capability...

Definitely sending off some tech illiterate vibes.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Most software shouldn't saturate either RAM or CPU on a modern computer.

Yes, Photoshop, compiling large codevases, and video encoding and things like that should make just of an the performance available.

But an app like Teams or Discord should not be hitting limits basically ever (I'll excuse running a 4k stream, but most screen sharing is actually 720p)

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You're right, they shouldn't be stressing either resource. Though my point was that referencing how much RAM is in the system is a bit silly when referring to a CPU being pinned at 100%. There is a HUGE swathe of CPUs with an even bigger range of performance that are all sold in 32GB systems.

I'm positive the low end of that scale could be rightfully pinned at 100% for certain common tasks.

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