What you want to get its the instant CPU usage (kind of)...
Actually, the instant CPU usage for a process does not exists. Instead you have to make two measurements and calculate the average CPU usage, the formula is quite simple:
AvgCpuUsed = [TotalCPUTime(process,time2) - TotalCPUTime(process,time1)] / [time2-time1]
The lower Time2 and Time1 difference is, the more "instant" your measurement will be. Windows Task Manager calculate the CPU use with an interval of one second. I've found that is more than enough and you might even consider doing it in 5 seconds intervals cause the act of measuring itself takes up CPU cycles...
So, first, to get the average CPU time
using System.Diagnostics;
float GetAverageCPULoad(int procID, DateTme from, DateTime, to)
{
// For the current process
//Process proc = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
// Or for any other process given its id
Process proc = Process.GetProcessById(procID);
System.TimeSpan lifeInterval = (to - from);
// Get the CPU use
float CPULoad = (proc.TotalProcessorTime.TotalMilliseconds / lifeInterval.TotalMilliseconds) * 100;
// You need to take the number of present cores into account
return CPULoad / System.Environment.ProcessorCount;
}
now, for the "instant" CPU load you'll need an specialized class:
class ProcLoad
{
// Last time you checked for a process
public Dictionary<int, DateTime> lastCheckedDict = new Dictionary<int, DateTime>();
public float GetCPULoad(int procID)
{
if (lastCheckedDict.ContainsKey(procID))
{
DateTime last = lastCheckedDict[procID];
lastCheckedDict[procID] = DateTime.Now;
return GetAverageCPULoad(procID, last, lastCheckedDict[procID]);
}
else
{
lastCheckedDict.Add(procID, DateTime.Now);
return 0;
}
}
}
You should call that class from a timer (or whatever interval method you like) for each process you want to monitor, if you want all the processes just use the Process.GetProcesses static method
Best Solution
Just type
perfmonintoStart > Runand press enter. When the Performance window is open, click on the + sign to add new counters to the graph. The counters are different aspects of how your PC works and are grouped by similarity into groups called "Performance Object".For your questions, you can choose the "Process", "Memory" and "Processor" performance objects. You then can see these counters in real time
You can also specify the utility to save the performance data for your inspection later. To do this, select "Performance Logs and Alerts" in the left-hand panel. (It's right under the System Monitor console which provides us with the above mentioned counters. If it is not there, click "File" > "Add/remove snap-in", click Add and select "Performance Logs and Alerts" in the list".) From the "Performance Logs and Alerts", create a new monitoring configuration under "Counter Logs". Then you can add the counters, specify the sampling rate, the log format (binary or plain text) and log location.