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ZioN
ZioN

Reputation: 560

Get physical memory usage in megabytes

I am looking for away to get the current amount physical memory used in MB. Something like in the Task Manager

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I am current using PerformanceCounter("Memory", "Available MBytes", true); but its also including the page files (I believe) which is not what I want. Also I want the option of getting the used and not the available memory.

The application I am working on, will monitor the physical memory usage, until the desired threshold is reached. Then it will restart a few windows services.

If you curious as to why I am developing such a program. Some of our programs have memory leaks on the servers, and a we have to restart windows services to release the memory, until we sort out all the memory leaks, I am making this application to help keep the server going, and responsive.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 17287

Answers (3)

Furqan Safdar
Furqan Safdar

Reputation: 16718

Using PerformanceCounter class, you can get PF Usage details:

PerformanceCounter pageCounter = new PerformanceCounter
            ("Paging File", "% Usage", "_Total", machineName);

You can find all the categories information here, Process Object.

ADDED, you can also get Available Memory details using PerformanceCounter:

PerformanceCounter ramCounter = PerformanceCounter
            ("Memory", "Available MBytes", String.Empty, machineName);

Using PerformanceCounter, NextValue() method you can get the available memory value in MB, later you can compare it with the threshold value to stop the desired Windows Services.

if (ramCounter.NextValue() > thresholdValue)
{
    // ... Stop Desired Services
}

Reference: A Simple Performance Counter Application

Upvotes: 6

Lloyd
Lloyd

Reputation: 29668

Personally I would use with Win32 API GlobalMemoryStatusEx call through P/Invoke.

You can find out more details here:- http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/kernel32.globalmemorystatusex

Upvotes: 2

Toad
Toad

Reputation: 15935

If you don't mind calling out to a kernel function. The c++ code to do it is:

 MEMORYSTATUSEX statex;
 statex.dwLength = sizeof (statex);
 GlobalMemoryStatusEx (&statex);

On codeproject you can find out how to call a kernel function from c#:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1285/Calling-API-functions-using-C

Upvotes: 3

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