do sleep until file exists ?

[silver217]

I am experiencing heavy cpu load with this:

do

sleep(1000)

until FileExists('d:\aaa.log')

is there a smarter way ?

[Gif]

I am experiencing heavy cpu load with this:

do

sleep(1000)

until FileExists('d:\aaa.log')

is there a smarter way ?

of course it depends in the structure of the rest of your code but anyway i always try to avoid Do..Until, maybe this:

While 1
    If FileExists('d:\aaa.log') Then ExitLoop
WEnd

Edited August 20, 2007 by Gif

[silver217]

of course it depends in the structure of the rest of your code but anyway i always try to avoid Do..Until, maybe this:

While 1
    If FileExists('d:\aaa.log') Then ExitLoop
WEnd

Thanks for your reply,

Your suggestion gives here the same problem, maybe it is my computer only,

but I don't know how to start resolving it.

I wrote two test programs:

Do

sleep(1000)

until fileexists('G:\aaa.txt')

Exit

and

While 1

if fileexists('G:\bbb.txt') then ExitLoop

WEnd

Exit

when I start the Process Explorer (ctrl-alt-del) then both programs

show 95 to 99% CPU load.

Anybody who can help me with this ?

[Generator]

Put Sleep(1) or Sleep(100) between each check.

[ChrisL]

I am experiencing heavy cpu load with this:

do

sleep(1000)

until FileExists('d:\aaa.log')

is there a smarter way ?

There is nothing wrong with your method.

You can try changing the Sleep() time but your code gives me a 0 CPU usage in task manager