Can we measure CPU Utilization?

[dnyberg]

I'd like to make something that works like this:

while(1)

{ if (CPU utilization < 40%) emit a mouse click;

sleep 5 minutes;

}

Do the pieces needed for that exist? (I haven't found them in the docs, and am not sufficiently expert in winternals to know what all the system dlls etc do). Is there a function, external app, dll call or something that would let me measure CPU util like that, to use it to control a script's execution?

Thanks!

[Andre]

Hi,

Very simple

Start taskmgr.exe from your script and hide it.

use the following code to get the cpu usage.

While 1
    
    $Cpu = StatusbarGetText('Windows Taakbeheer','',2)
    ToolTip($Cpu,0,0)
    Sleep(10)
    
WEnd

Andre

Edit : Replace Windows Taakbeheer with your language of course

Edited March 21, 2005 by Andre

[dnyberg]

Hm, okay. I guess some "if !exist..." etc would be desirable as well, but it looks like those are the primitive bits I'll need. Thanks!

[layer]

you could write a Dll with SystemGetTimes

NOTE: NOT SystemGetTime...

maybe ill give it a shot, although many think i really need a lot fo learning to do with C++ so, it may not be safe if i made it.. ill wait

but in andres example you could just do like

if $cpu = 40 then blahblah

i think..

[dnyberg]

Something using a dll call would surely be more elegant, but leeching off task manager would be a quick and dirty way to get basic function going. I'm looking to make my pc do a pile of work while I'm away from it, but starting multiple instances of the task make it crash. Way too much virtual memory to run in parallel. That crashes the machine.

Emit a mouse click will do, if I stack up a bunch of windows exactly over each other and place the mouse cursor over the "go" button. I bet I could do better by searching windows for a given title string too. More elaborations.

But once it's all done, this could be kinda neat.