[fpc-devel] daemonapp 100% cpu easting fix

[Bogusław Brandys]

Steve Howe wrote:
> Hello all,
>>> such as
>>> changing the sleep time. Would it hurt to make it virtual ?
>> Is it really necessary to do polling (with or without sleep) here ?
>> Avoiding polling in any case would improve the performance and reduce
>> intrusiveness.
> On Windows you have alternatives such as someone posted in thread, but on 
> Linux/Unix you must to do polling as far as know.
> 
> Anyway polling with sleep will consume very few cpu, acts very well overall 
> and it's more portable.
> 


Yes.On windows you could create event and wait for it to be 
signaled.This particularly move response for loop to the windows core 
and makes a huge difference in CPU usage.

Good luck.


Boguslaw