performancecounter

Here is my code. PerformanceCounter cpuCounter = new PerformanceCounter(); cpuCounter.CategoryName = "Processor"; cpuCounter.CounterName = "% Processor Time"; cpuCounter.InstanceName = "_Total"; // will always start at 0 dynamic firstValue = cpuCounter.NextValue(); System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); dynamic secondValue = cpuCounter.NextValue(); return secondValue; There are a lot of people here that are getting the problem that this returns zero, I however am getting 100 at all times, and I know for sure my software is not taking up that much CPU powrer. Any ideas as to what I can do to make

I'm trying to read a number of performance counters from a running .NET 4 application, from another .NET 4 application. Some counters, such as Process\% Processor Time and Process\Private Bytes work fine. However, as soon as I try to read a performance counter from one of the .NET categories, such as .NET CLR Memory\# Gen 0 Collections , I get the following exception: Instance 'MyApplication' does not exist in the specified Category When I call: new PerformanceCounterCategory(".NET CLR Memory").GetInstanceNames() It returns a very small set of instances, and MyApplication is indeed not in the

Under Windows, performance counters have different names, depending on the operating system language. For example, on an English Windows version, there is the performance counter \Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time . The same counter is called \Prozessor(_Total)\Prozessorzeit (%) on a German Windows version. Is there any way to retrieve the performance counter value in a language-independent way (using C++ or C#)? Or is there an alternative to get the processor load of the whole computer without performance counters? Justin Each PerfMon counter is given a unique (per machine) integer ID to

I've created a performancecounter that can check the total memory usage in %, but the problem is that it doesn't give me the same value as in task manager shows me. for example: my program says 34% but task manager says 40%. Any ideas? NOTE I try to get the available RAM of the system, not the used RAM by a process. Current Code private PerformanceCounter performanceCounterRAM = new PerformanceCounter(); performanceCounterRAM.CounterName = "% Committed Bytes In Use"; performanceCounterRAM.CategoryName = "Memory"; progressBarRAM.Value = (int)(performanceCounterRAM.NextValue()); labelRAM.Text =

I'm currently doing some GUI testing on a ASP.net 2.0 application. The RDBMS is SQL Server 2005. The host is Win Server 2003 / IIS 6.0. I do not have the source code of the application because it was programmed by an external company who's not releasing the code. I've noticed that the application performs well when I restart IIS but after some testing, after I have opened and closed my browser for a couple of hours, the application starts to get slower and slower. I was wondering if this behaviour was due to a bad closing connection practice from the programmers : I'm suspecting an open

I am working on a background program that will be running for a long time, and I have a external logging program ( SmartInspect ) that I want to feed with some values periodically, to monitor it in realtime when debugging. I know I can simply fire up multiple programs, like the Task Manager, or IARSN TaskInfo, but I'd like to keep everything in my own program for this, as I also wants to add some simple rules like if the program uses more than X% CPU, flag this in the log. I have a background thread that periodically feeds some statistics to SmartInspect, like memory consumption, working set,

I'm attempting to read some performance counters from my ASP.NET application. When I do, I get the error "Access to the registry key 'Global' is denied." I have tried following the instructions here and here , using the user IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool , which is the identity my app pool is configured to use: I have added that user to the Performance Monitor Users group: And after adding the user, I restarted my computer. But I am still getting the error. I have also tried adding the users IUSR and NETWORK SERVICE to the Performance Monitor Users group, but those don't work either. Out of