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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:06:06+00:00

I have a benchmarking program that calculates the time (in milliseconds and ticks), for

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I have a benchmarking program that calculates the time (in milliseconds and ticks), for a persistance to Entity Framework 4.0. Is there a way to calculate CPU load ? I am guessing that I would need to query Windows to find out my CPU frequency, how many cores, etc. Does this sound right ? If so, what part of the .NET framework relates to querying the system ? I am guessing System.Diagnostics ?

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Scott

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    You can use a PerformanceCounter (for the System load).

    Or, better:

    var p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess();
var span = p.TotalProcessorTime;

    You will have to relate that to wall-time to get a percentage. Also see UserProcessorTime.

    Edit:

    On second thought, if you want to benchmark wouldn’t you rather measure just elapsed time from executing a piece of code, eg the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class?

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