Comment by gbtami:
General Comment:
The issue was opened as a complaint about 100% cpu usage by hint/spy
engines, so I set it to 3 to easy testing and see how/when engines stop
analyzing. On the other side 3 sec is enough for crafty, sjeng, gnuchess
etc. to reach 10 ply search, and stockfish to reach 15-16 ply (at least on
my PC). This is more than enough to get a basic hint/spy suggestion when
kibitzing on FICS or something.
Are you getting unusable hints with 3 sec ?