PERFORMING OPERATIONS IN RESPONSE TO DETECTING A COMPUTER IDLE CONDITION

摘要

A computer system (100), including a computer (102), an operating system (118), running a foreground process (120) and a background process (112) (such as an index process) in memory (116), which can be random access memory (RAM), coupled to a CPU (central processing unit) (104) via a memory bus (114), a disk controller (106) coupled to the CPU (104) via peripheral bus (112), one or more mass storage devices (108), including one or more of magnetic hard disk drives, optical drives, solid state non-volatile memory, or the like. In addition, a video controller (110) is coupled to the CPU (104) and to a monitor (124). The computer system (110) includes performance monitoring software, such as discussed above, used to determine when the mass storage device 108 is being utilized by the foreground process, and when the background process (112) should access the mass storage device (108).