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Re: Memory and idle applescript
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Re: Memory and idle applescript


  • Subject: Re: Memory and idle applescript
  • From: julifos <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:36:30 +0200

Maybe I defined vaguelly my purposes. Sorry ;-)

I don't want sleep. My purpose is a stay-open app which will react only to
the "open" event, but there is not idle handler.

jj

> my understanding is that
>
> do shell script "sleep 20"
> (or whatever)
>
> is efficient
>
> douglas in Pittsburgh
>
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 08:03 AM, julifos wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to create an app whose main goal is *wait* for user
>> requests, and
>> I've seen in the process-viewer that both applescript-studio apps and
>> applets are very memory-wasters in idle status, after PB, the Window
>> Manager
>> and the active app, which is waste-lots-of-memory for a simple idle
>> status...
>>
>> Do you know a workaround for this, to waste, eg 1% memory while
>> waiting,
>> instead a 8-10%?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> jj
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