I'm looking for possible ways to optimize a script or lower CPU usage from my script. Are there any practices I should implement that are great for lowering CPU usage?

Also, there is something I notice with the scripts. If I use it, it will work fine normally but when I have say multiple of them running at the same time they will start to misclick with certain stuff, such as interacting with a NPC etc. Is this due to the CPU being a limiting factor or could it be something else? I am hoping to squeeze out as many bots as I can on a single server/vps.

Caching data would be a great place to start! 

• Cache data as @ProjectPact mentioned
• Avoid updating the cache every other second if it can be helped
• Bulky logic and calculations belong in your main script loop
• Keep rendering to a minimum and allow users to turn it off
• Use multi-threading in places where it makes sense to handle multiple set of tasks separately
• For power-users, script parameters > GUI
• If the task is simple, then the code should be too. Don't go overboard with task nodes, switch-case states, etc. think 'happy path'.

Also, you should check out:

 

Anything that you're painting. Scripts with fancy paints are certainly more cpu expensive than a script with absolutely no paint.

6 hours ago, Alek said:

Anything that you're painting. Scripts with fancy paints are certainly more cpu expensive than a script with absolutely no paint.

Perhaps it's worth adding some sort of box you can tick/script parameter you can enter to forcibly turn it off/on.

21 minutes ago, liverare said:

Perhaps it's worth adding some sort of box you can tick/script parameter you can enter to forcibly turn it off/on.

Low resource mode, if I have the checkbox there I will have complaints that users cant see their paints, even if it says "Disable paint".

Extra question :

Will switching from webwalk to path's significantly reduce resource usage?

On 9/11/2018 at 3:11 PM, flakeybanana said:

Extra question :

Will switching from webwalk to path's significantly reduce resource usage?

it will