Lag/Rubber Banding

Just tried your plugin for the first time with the default settings and we are getting a pretty significant FPS drop.  This is a new server w/o only 2 or 3 players for testing running on fairly beefy hardware (Xeon Gold, w/ more then 40 cores.).   What info do you need from me to see whats going on?

Hi, you can try to edit next settings:

• "Brain timer tick" and "Controls timer tick" - increasing from 0.01 to 0.1 and more will help, but may affect how bot will behave
• "Enable periodic bot reinitialization?" - can help in long-term by respawning bots after a while

high number of CPU cores won't have much of an impact on performance because the game is based on the Unity engine, which doesn't use all cores efficiently and mostly use single core
what's your usual fps without rnpc?

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When BetterNPC is loaded, or when BetterNPC is the only plugin loaded the fps drops to 5.    On an interesting note, the CPU load drops  by half, from 700-800% to between 400-500%.  Seems like some thread is blocking or stuck in a wait state.    We tried turning off stashes to see if that would help at all, and it changed nothing.     I will try the options you recommend and reload the server then report back.  

ohh you have huge uptime, it will eat performance after a while significantly and RAM as well
turn on periodic bot reinitialization in config, it will help for long uptime
however i recommend rebooting the server at least each 12 hours

This server is just a test server and does restart quite often.  But your advice is correct, and we have that set on our prod server with a restart time of every 8 hours.  In this case, our uptime was a lot because  it was sitting idle for a while before I pulled those numbers.   When i actually tested it was only a few hours old.   

One thing i noticed from the configs, the default for Brain timer tick was already at 0.1.   I enabled reinitialization. 

"Controller setup": {
        "Brain timer tick (0.01 - 1)": 0.1,
        "Controls timer tick (0.01 - 1)": 0.5,
        "Accuracy of fire (lower is better)": 3.0,
        "Find entities radius": 30.0,
        "Use only NavMesh navigation?": true,
        "Movement speed (1 - 4)": 4,
        "Movement speed in water (1 - 4)": 2,

Another question,  How many total NPC's on one server have you seen this script run without having adverse impact on lag/fps?

Also, another question.  Is there an RCON console command that i can run to verify the number of bots that have been spawned in?  

entity.find_entity or similar?