Fellow Perl mon(k|g)ers,

I'd like to write a Perl script to gather system statistics for a Win 98 box, very much like the Task Manager on W2K does. I'm looking for parameters like CPU Usage, MEM Usage, number of handles, number of processes, etc.

The script will poll the system at regular intervals to take a snap-shot of the parameters and then write the data to disk.

Then I'd use GD::Graph to display the trends for analysis.

A quick search of CPAN finds a few Win32API related modules, but nothing really jumps out at me.

Have any of you done anything like this in the past? I guess I just need a push in the right direction...

Where do you want *them* to go today?

In reply to Win 98 System Stats by thezip

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