Ability to have zones NOT go to Sleep

[Riklin]

I'm sure this has been talked about at one time or another, but with the changes in technology, it makes me wonder...

Zones, even "static" zones do not really stay active if no one is in them. They all go to "sleep". This usually leads to timing related things being disconnected for a while when someone does go to the zone. I realize this was done to reduce CPU load and free up memory, but just how much burden does it put on the system? I mean most computers have 8+ cores these days with anywhere from 16 gigs of ram up to 64 gigs. My server runs with an 8 core AMD and 32 gigs of ram. I have memory to burn and the CPU seldom goes over 5% usage for long.

Back in 2004, computer resources may have been an issue, but things have changed quite a bit. 4gigs ram was about the limit back then and multi-cores were just starting to show up...

How much burden could it put on a current system? Really?

[Coenxai]

Each instance of zone is approximately 3-40~ mb. Throw your OS and additional processes on top. Memory leak? Factor that in.