How to implement thread which periodically checks something using minimal resources?

Question

I would like to have a thread running in background which will check connection to some server with given time interval. For example for every 5 seconds.

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Answer 1

To add another means of achieving a 5-sec event it is possible to use the Multimedia Timer which is similar to TTimer but has no dependence on your application. After configuring it (you can setup one-shot or repetitive) it calls you back in another thread. By its nature it is very accurate (to within better than 1ms). See some sample Delphi code here.

The code to call the timer is simple and it is supported on all Windows platforms.