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Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:57 pm**

Hi all

Does the computer use more energy by connecting to the internet and checking mails than doing delay()?
In code:

Repeat
ConnectmailServer()
Check mails()
DisconnectMailServer()
ForEver

Vs.

Repeat
ConnectmailServer()
Check mails()
DisconnectMailServer()
Delay(10000)
ForEver

Which one consumes the most?

Thank you

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:53 pm**

The first one uses more CPU cycles and thus more energy.

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:11 pm**

Oh ok. Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:01 am**

eesau wrote:The first one uses more CPU cycles and thus more energy.

Not only that but it could cause a DoS on the mail server.

I would actually recommend running the code in a separate thread with a delay of one minute. Not that 10 seconds is bad, but when dealing with servers one should try to cause as little as possible traffic. If 1000 people were using a program to check the same mail server every 10 seconds that would be a total of 100 requests per second.

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