Dear Monks,

I'm looking to assess CPU usage on a Windows 2000 machine. Basically, I have a Perl program that is on a group of networked machines. This program is designed to run in the background on each of the machines. I want the sleep time within the  For (1..200) {  #some code here;  sleep 20;  } arrangement to be determined by the level of CPU usage. The greater the level of CPU usage the greater the sleep time within the loop.

In particular what modules would people recommend?

Update:
It looks like Win32::Process::Info is the module to go for. From different nodes that I have read it has become apparent that there is a wide range of information that can be returned with use of this module. I am very keen to automate the assessment of CPU usage in order that the level of CPU usage (over a period of about 2 minutes) within a PC node can determine the availability of this node (within a distributed computer network). Can anyone please suggest what info I need to return using Win32::Process::Info in order to do this.

Update B:

I need to take another look at: Win32-Process-Memory

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