How Can I Read the Amount of Memory Being Used by Another Application Within My Program?

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To let me explain why I need to know, in my server launcher (for a game) someone requested that I added a 'Restart on Excessive Memory Usage' checkbox. So, after an hour or so of adventuring, I came here.

I just need to know how to read the memory usage of a running application and I can do the rest. I just have no idea how to do this withing a c# application.

What I have so far is

C#

Process[] p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("ProcessName");

Then I need to get the WorkingSet, but I can't do this as it's an array. Is there anyway to fix this?

Thank you!

Posted 28-Oct-13 15:24pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-10-28T16:01:00

Please see: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/7d8a6640-919d-47d8-8e73-586fb7ac261e/get-processs-memory?forum=csharpgeneral[^],
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4679962/what-is-the-correct-performance-counter-to-get-cpu-and-memory-usage-of-a-process[^].

For the background, please see this Microsoft article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768048.aspx[^].

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