According to Process Monitor Spiral Knights is spaming registtry requests for no reason.
Its doing this several tiems per second. i don't think i change my nickname that often.
09:36:49,7650887 java.exe 7192 RegQueryValue HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\projectx\knight_label SUCCESS Type: REG_SZ, Length: 26, Data: Blue Panther
registry spam
Wed, 08/28/2013 - 00:47
Blue-Panther
About 10 000 times per second on my PC. Not so much, but i agree that they shouldn't check this value so often. Also it takes about 8% of CPU time.