Why does Lightning/2000 seem to be taking up the entire processor?
Lightning/2000 performs nearly all of its processing using the “Idle” process. This means that whenever the computer isn’t busy doing something more important, Lightning/2000 is checking the lightning detection hardware to see if a stroke has occurred recently and updating the display. Since the “Idle” process has the lowest priority, any other program you are running will execute in preference to the lightning detector software. If you check the processor utilization while Lightning/2000 is the only software running, you will invariably find that it is using nearly 100% of the processor’s capacity. This is not a problem, and in fact is a good way to ensure that Lightning/2000 does not monopolize your computer when other applications are running. With version 3.3 and higher of Lightning/2000, the processor usage is optimized so that if there is not significant lightning activity, very little of the CPU is used.
