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The Problem is:
My application monitors the cpu usage of local machine and whenever cpu usage goes below 10%, it will send the ip address to an already designated pc, lets say a server, and that server will send some file to the 1st machine.
Now plz guide me how should i approach this problem?
What should i know to code such application?
Specially, how to monitor CPU usage?
I am using the Windows platform!
Thanx in advance!
>I am using the Windows platform!
Restoring a minimized window takes up more than 10% of the CPU on a Windows machine. So basically you want your client program to retrieve files from a server program while the machine is idling?
yes!
Its the same concept as screen saver. my application should be activated when the machine is idle!
Why not just /write/ a screen saver, and whenever it kicks in, make good use of the send() and recv() functions to transmit binary data between the two machines?
Edit: I'm not fuzzy-warm on the details. Something like Folding@home is what I mean.