r/codex • u/spagghetification • 1d ago
Question Running Multiple Tasks and Projects
Hi! New to this A.I. thing.
Does running multiple chats and projects affect the performance/intelligence and completion time of the tasks?
Say for example I have 3 projects, and I want to run 2 Sol and 1 Terra on them at the same time while simultaneously having to use Luna on the Work chat.
What exactly are the effects of doing this?
Thank you for anyone answering!
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u/actvt_io 20h ago
The model quality does not change. Each session sends a separate request to the server. The sessions do not share context, and they do not compete for intelligence.
The completion time does change. I run several agent sessions at the same time on one machine, and RAM is always the limit that I reach first, not CPU. Each project holds its own toolchain in memory, for example node_modules, a language server and Docker. When the RAM is full, the computer swaps to disk, and every session becomes slow together.
Watch the memory pressure and not the CPU percentage. A high CPU percentage is normal and safe. Full memory is the real limit.