Get information about RAM during the run of a program

Question

I've got two methods. I want to test its performance.

The time of its work I can get with stopwatch. But how to get information about RAM?Are there any classes for it?

Or I will have to get it from task manager manually?(stop program+run tm+continue program)

possible duplicate of [Poll C# app's memory usage at runtime?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463595/poll-c-sharp-apps-memory-usage-at-runtime) — digEmAll, Mar 20 '12 at 22:36
Have a look at the dupe I posted in the previous comment. Or also you can use a memory profiler that gives you even much more infos. — digEmAll, Mar 20 '12 at 22:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 22:34

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Process.GetCurrentProcess().WorkingSet64

answered Mar 20 '12 at 22:34

SLaks

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What's the difference between that, Process.PagedMemorySize64 and Process.PrivateMemorySize64 (the accepted answer and alternate suggestion from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463595/poll-c-sharp-apps-memory-usage-at-runtime)? – Eric J. Mar 20 '12 at 22:38
@EricJ: I'm embarrassed to admit that I have no idea. – SLaks Mar 21 '12 at 05:33

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 22:43

Check out Jon Skeet's blog on similar subject - http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2011/04/05/of-memory-and-strings.aspx.

Basically use GC.GetTotalMemory

  long before = GC.GetTotalMemory(true);
    // do something 
  long after = GC.GetTotalMemory(true);

  Console.WriteLine("Diff:{0}" after - before;);

Note that TaskManager shows how much memory process is allocated, you want to see how much memory CLR is allocated for alive objects at particular point.

Get information about RAM during the run of a program

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