Determine Process Info Programmatically in Darwin/OSX

Question

I have a class with the following member functions:

/// caller pid
virtual pid_t Pid() const = 0; 

/// physical memory size in KB
virtual uint64_t Size() c         


        

Answer 1

Since you say no Objective-C we'll rule out most of the MacOS frameworks.

You can get CPU time using getrusage(), which gives the total amount of User and System CPU time charged to your process. To get a CPU percentage you'd need to snapshot the getrusage values once per second (or however granular you want to be).

#include 

struct rusage r_usage;

if (getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &r_usage)) {
    /* ... error handling ... */
}

printf("Total User CPU = %ld.%ld\n",
        r_usage.ru_utime.tv_sec,
        r_usage.ru_utime.tv_usec);
printf("Total System CPU = %ld.%ld\n",
        r_usage.ru_stime.tv_sec,
        r_usage.ru_stime.tv_usec);

There is an RSS field in the getrusage structure, but is appears to always be zero in MacOS X 10.5. Michael Knight wrote a blog post several years ago about how to determine the RSS.