How to ask the prozessorstate

[Kostarsus]

Hi,

I want to write a program, that checks the cpu use in advance, before the realy pogram starts.
So my question: How can I get the cpu use by a program?
An example would be nice, but if you post the namespaces and Objects, which I have to use, I can read in the documentation.

cu Kostarsus

 

[johnrbradley]

Here is a thing I wrote earlier for one of my programs.. Hope this helps

public class ProcessorUsage
	{
		public static CounterSample poll1 = new CounterSample();
		public static CounterSample poll2 = new CounterSample();
		public static PerformanceCounter procPolling = new PerformanceCounter();
		public static void ProcThread() 
		{
			procPolling.CategoryName = "Processor";
			procPolling.CounterName = "% Processor Time";
			procPolling.InstanceName = "_Total";
			int i = 0;
			do 
			
			{
				poll1 = procPolling.NextSample();
				Thread.Sleep(300);
				poll2 = procPolling.NextSample();
				Form1.form1.progressBar1.Value = Convert.ToInt32(CounterSample.Calculate(poll1,poll2));
		        }
	while (i == 0);
        }
}