Silverlight app has cpu between 20% and 40%

Question

I do not know much about Silverlight but an app I am trying to maintain has the cpu constantly hitting between 20% to 40%.

The app is just showing data from a database and I believe the developer refreshes the page every minute but in between cpu is still at 20%.

I am trying to argue that this looks a bit high but the response I get back is that it is normal.

Any counter arguments I can give?

JD

Answer 1

You can find some performance tips from Microsoft at this page here.

When I was developing a resource intensive Silverlight application a few months back, I found it useful to set the MaxFrameRate. I'm not sure on the details of your application, but if it is redrawing frequently, this will definitely help.