Can you explain how you came to that conclusion? I don’t know what game it was and how many copies it sold, nor how many Codex users there are, but I assume you already know those details?
500 milliseconds is an eternity in computer time. Doing a 10KB write (very generously large for a logfile) write every 500 milliseconds is something it could do continuously for about 1,000 years before it used up the write capacity of an SSD.
There’s a pretty massive difference in scale and impact here…
Can you explain how you came to that conclusion? I don’t know what game it was and how many copies it sold, nor how many Codex users there are, but I assume you already know those details?
500 milliseconds is an eternity in computer time. Doing a 10KB write (very generously large for a logfile) write every 500 milliseconds is something it could do continuously for about 1,000 years before it used up the write capacity of an SSD.
The game was Windrose and it was making over a hundred gigabytes of unnecessary writes per hour at 90,000-130,000 writes per second, for the record.
After the devs tweaked their database caching it went down to ‘only’ 20-60 writes per second, which still feels insane to me.