[LAU] Anyone using a timer for taking breaks ?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 5 March 2018 at 23:17, Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel at web.de> wrote:

> On Monday 05 March 2018, jonetsu wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:03:24 -0800
> >
> > Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at cosgroves.us> wrote:
> > > I use a bash script.  It's just a nested loop.  One loop keeps track
> > > of the time interval between breaks.  The other loop pops up PDFs of
> > > stretching routines to do during the breaks.
> >
> > I'd be a bit wary of resources.  There's no direct access to time
> > functions in bash, always have to go through a high-level middleman.
> > The middleman would not get asked about time each fraction of a second,
> > but the bash loop to pace the asking could very well take some
> > noticeable CPU percentage.  I guess to nice it down would be in order.
>
> If you use e.g. "sleep 60" in your bash loop before asking the time wouldn't 
> that drop the CPU usage to something subtly?

Yes, but I don't take breaks every minute.   ;-)
Mine is set to 3600.

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Kevin