On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:37:20AM -0800, Swapnil Nagle wrote: > I am coding a daemon which i want to activate when the system is idle. > I can think of the following approaches : > * Interrupt the daemon periodically and read /proc/loadavg( or read > the value from where /proc/loadavg reads it) . > OR > * wait on some event that will notify the daemon ? > OR > * make the daemon a low priority or background process so that it > will effectively run during idle time. > Please suggest any ideas/suggestions/improvements to above approaches. One possibility for this is making a task queue and running the task queue during cpu_idle(). Cheers, Bill -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
