[FX.php List] TIP: optimize Macintosh Filemaker Pro for web serving

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

This is for FileMaker 5.0 - 6.0 right?

Then even hiding windows for each file helps alot too.

Gjermund

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:14:15 -0500, DC <dan.cynosure at dbmscan.com> wrote:
> I noticed that my Apple G5 processor benefits (several percentage points
> of CPU usage as reported by top -au) when filemaker pro is hidden.
> 
> So, I wrote a little applescript/osascript to be a cron job and grab
> that little piece of processor back (but only if the screensaver is on):
> 
> osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set process_flag to
> (exists process "ScreenSaverEngine")' -e 'if process_flag then tell
> application "System Events" to set visible of process "Filemaker Pro" to
> false'
> 
> paste this into a text editor and take out the word wraps and such that
> the email clients put in. then drop it into the crontab (i use cronnix
> but cronnix doesn't seem to support @reboot crontab entry) of the user
> who runs your filemaker install and set it to recur every hour or so or
> maybe just once a day or on reboot (depending on how often filemaker
> becomes unhidden).
> 
> You could probably adapt this to any processor hoggin' app on your Mac
> system.
> 
> enjoy.
> dan
> 
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