How to determine CPU and memory consumption from inside a process?

Question

I once had the task of determining the following performance parameters from inside a running application:

• Total virtual memory available
• Virtual memo

Answer 1

Mac OS X - CPU

Overall CPU usage:

From Retrieve system information on MacOS X? :

#include 
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#include 

static unsigned long long _previousTotalTicks = 0;
static unsigned long long _previousIdleTicks = 0;

// Returns 1.0f for "CPU fully pinned", 0.0f for "CPU idle", or somewhere in between
// You'll need to call this at regular intervals, since it measures the load between
// the previous call and the current one.
float GetCPULoad()
{
   host_cpu_load_info_data_t cpuinfo;
   mach_msg_type_number_t count = HOST_CPU_LOAD_INFO_COUNT;
   if (host_statistics(mach_host_self(), HOST_CPU_LOAD_INFO, (host_info_t)&cpuinfo, &count) == KERN_SUCCESS)
   {
      unsigned long long totalTicks = 0;
      for(int i=0; i 0) ? ((float)idleTicksSinceLastTime)/totalTicksSinceLastTime : 0);
  _previousTotalTicks = totalTicks;
  _previousIdleTicks  = idleTicks;
  return ret;
}