Process Memory Size - Different Counters

Question

I\'m trying to find out how much memory my own .Net server process is using (for monitoring and logging purposes).

I\'m using:

Process.GetCurrentProc         


        

Answer 1

To get the value that Task Manager gives, my hat's off to Mike Regan's solution above. However, one change: it is not: perfCounter.NextValue()/1000; but perfCounter.NextValue()/1024; (i.e. a real kilobyte). This gives the exact value you see in Task Manager.

Following is a full solution for displaying the 'memory usage' (Task manager's, as given) in a simple way in your WPF or WinForms app (in this case, simply in the title). Just call this method within the new Window constructor:

    private void DisplayMemoryUsageInTitleAsync()
    {
        origWindowTitle = this.Title; // set WinForms or WPF Window Title to field
        BackgroundWorker wrkr = new BackgroundWorker();
        wrkr.WorkerReportsProgress = true;

        wrkr.DoWork += (object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) => {
            Process currProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
            PerformanceCounter perfCntr = new PerformanceCounter();
            perfCntr.CategoryName = "Process";
            perfCntr.CounterName = "Working Set - Private";
            perfCntr.InstanceName = currProcess.ProcessName;

            while (true)
            {
                int value = (int)perfCntr.NextValue() / 1024;
                string privateMemoryStr = value.ToString("n0") + "KB [Private Bytes]";
                wrkr.ReportProgress(0, privateMemoryStr);
                Thread.Sleep(1000);
            }
        };

        wrkr.ProgressChanged += (object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e) => {
            string val = e.UserState as string;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(val))
                this.Title = string.Format(@"{0}   ({1})", origWindowTitle, val);
        };

        wrkr.RunWorkerAsync();
    }`