I've found various ways to track down CPU's and RAM's usage from within a process, in C#. I'd like to obtain those infos for an external program (like providing its PID).
Is there anything in the .NET framework that can help me?
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you mean, like passing a PID as argument? – jasonco Nov 18 '09 at 09:16
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check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/278071/how-to-get-the-cpu-usage-c You can also use WMI( windows management instrumentation) for memeory usage . Check Win32_process class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394372(VS.85).aspx Also you can go for performance counters (you code require admin privileges ) Look into WMI. – PRR Nov 18 '09 at 09:51
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Use Performance Monitor, and add counters for specific processes.
If you need to analyse the results, you can have them written to a performance log.
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I need this for logging purposes, so I need to get the data in a format i can write, store and analyze. – pistacchio Nov 18 '09 at 09:15
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You can save to a performance log from performance monitor: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721865.aspx – Neil Barnwell Nov 18 '09 at 09:24
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You could host a PowerShell RunSpace and call stuff in there - it's got a lot more native stuff dealing with this type of thing.
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You can pass an instance into a System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter constructor - this should allow you to specify the process instance you want to monitor
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