Question

I have a Samurize config that shows a CPU usage graph similar to Task manager.

How do I also display the name of the process with the current highest CPU usage percentage?

I would like this to be updated, at most, once per second. Samurize can call a command line tool and display it’s output on screen, so this could also be an option.

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Further clarification:

I have investigated writing my own command line c# .NET application to enumerate the array returned from System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses(), but the Process instance class does not seem to include a CPU percentage property.

Can I calculate this in some way?

Answer 1

With PowerShell:

Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -desc | Select-Object -first 3 | Format-Table CPU,ProcessName -hidetableheader 

returns somewhat like:

  16.8641632 System    12.548072 csrss   11.9892168 powershell