Question

I have created a C# console app which continuously creates text files with randomly created strings. Time (in minute) is given as an input to the app and it runs for that number of minutes to generate continuous text files. I understand that the amount of data generated will vary depending upon the processor speed and other configurations. My machine is able to generate a total of 25 mb of data in text format in 1 minute.

Now, my question is, can I control the rate of data generated per minute if given as another input to the app through my code?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

var start = DateTime.Now;
int bytesSaved=0;
double desiredSpeed = (25*1024*1024)/60;

while(true)
{
  int latency = bytesSaved/(DateTime.Now-start).TotalSeconds - desiredSpeed;
  if(latency>0) 
    {          
      Thread.Sleep(100);
      continue;
    }

  bytesSaved +=SaveDataChunk(latency);     

}