How to calculate the CPU usage of a process by PID in Linux from C?

You need to parse out the data from /proc/<PID>/stat. These are the first few fields (from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt in your kernel source): Table 1-3: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.22-rc3) …………………………………………………………………… Field Content pid process id tcomm filename of the executable state state (R is running, S is sleeping, D is sleeping in an … Read more

Why does “while(true)” without “Thread.sleep” cause 100% CPU usage on Linux but not on Windows?

By default, top on Linux runs in so-called IRIX mode, while the Windows Task Manager does not. Let’s say you have 4 cores: With IRIX mode on, 1 fully utilized core is 100% and 4 cores are 400%. With IRIX mode off, 1 fully utilized core is 25% and 4 cores are 100%. This means … Read more

MySQL high CPU usage [closed]

First I’d say you probably want to turn off persistent connections as they almost always do more harm than good. Secondly I’d say you want to double check your MySQL users, just to make sure it’s not possible for anyone to be connecting from a remote server. This is also a major security thing to … Read more

How to get the CPU Usage in C#?

You can use the PerformanceCounter class from System.Diagnostics. Initialize like this: PerformanceCounter cpuCounter; PerformanceCounter ramCounter; cpuCounter = new PerformanceCounter(“Processor”, “% Processor Time”, “_Total”); ramCounter = new PerformanceCounter(“Memory”, “Available MBytes”); Consume like this: public string getCurrentCpuUsage(){ return cpuCounter.NextValue()+”%”; } public string getAvailableRAM(){ return ramCounter.NextValue()+”MB”; }

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