Get Memory and CPU usage in a C program

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Good Evening,

I am writing a C program and need to get memory info (Size and Usage),
also I need to know the CPU usage amount.

Do we have functions that returns these results?

Thanks

Posted 10-Jan-11 8:56am

Tareq Al Tamimi

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Solution 2

Another alternative is to use performance counters. Here is a small example:
Windows C++ Get CPU and Memory Utilisation With Performance Counters[^]

And one from CP
An Introduction To Performance Counters[^]

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 10-Jan-11 9:20am

Espen Harlinn

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google MEMORYSTATUSEX for documentation

Posted 10-Jan-11 17:54pm

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-10T09:02:00

Solution 1

You could try google. I found this CodeProject article with the search phrase, "C++ get cpu load":

Get CPU Usage with GetSystemTimes[^]

Posted 10-Jan-11 9:02am

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Updated 10-Jan-11 9:03am

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Espen Harlinn 10-Jan-11 15:14pm

5+ Can't help noticing that a certain outlawed programmer never seems to sleep either :)

Sandeep Mewara 11-Jan-11 7:41am

Comment from OP:
Thanks john,

I am looking for one function that will give one value,
I want to apply a load balancing idea in a parallel application so need to see how much each machine is busy and has empty memory.