On Jun 21, 2004, at 10:05, Matthieu Kopp wrote: Hi, I admit it was a very bad idea, .... the rational behind it was to develop a standalone widget that would give an up-to-date indication of the amount of free disk space without having to know about the processes performing disk operations. This is why I used a timer (OK, the polling frequency was very high). Gak! I can appreciate the desire, I guess, but it seems much more efficient to have the widget wait for a request, and *then* get up-to-date information. With polling, your information is only as good as the last update. You have to have a high frequency to assure that the information you return is (more or less) accurate, and then you end up paying that high price for the information. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Some people have a mental | horizon of radius zero, and | call it their point of view. | -- David Hilbert *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.