How Do I Get CPU Utilization In Windows

Win has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

What is the best way of measuring CPU activity through a Perl program on Windows? Do I use a system call or do I use a Perl module?

2005-09-03 Retitled by holli, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'CPU'

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Re: How Do I Get CPU Utilization In Windows by puploki (Hermit) on Sep 02, 2005 at 11:56 UTC
Under Windows, the CPU utilisation is exposed through the (WMI) performance counters. You can use the Win32::Perflib module to interface to the counters with Perl. It's not the most obvious module to use, however I found an article through Google that shows you how to use it (including pulling out CPU usage information). HTH, --Loki	[reply]
Re: How Do I Get CPU Utilization In Windows by sh1tn (Priest) on Sep 02, 2005 at 12:50 UTC
You may find useful the scripting tools which generate vbs, wmi, python and most importantly of course - pl scripts.	[reply]