I am developing an application that needs to monitor the system's
CPU and IO load while it's running to be able to identify a low
system load and only do it's resource-hungry work while the system
is not busy doing other things. I've been searching for the low-level
system API that would give me
P.S.: My apologies if this question is not exactly Cocoa-related...
You're probably better off taking this to darwin-dev. There was also a
discussion related to this a few weeks ago on darwin-kernel:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-kernel/2009/Jul/msg00080.html
If you can design to its paradigm, NSOperationQueue is almost exactly
what you want. By default it will dynamically adjust the number of
running operations to match the system load. Also, read up on Grand
Central Dispatch which is coming in Snow Leopard.
Mike.
On 17 Aug 2009, at 12:13,
