Memory

Michael

I wasnt sure were to post this, but here I go. I was wondering how I could watch my system memory in real time to see what programs effect what memory. Like if I were to start up Word and I would like to know what memory is effect by it.

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Matthew Cochran18y ago
Check out perfmon: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645516(VS.71).aspx
or if you are working on developing CLR apps, memprofiler is worth the money: http://memprofiler.com/
Scott Lysle18y ago
Well, I don't know about the real time part but you can watch your memory using a performance counter. You could set up a timer control with a 1000 msec interval to get an update on the available memory and display that.

Declare a class scoped variable:

   private System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter pcCpu;

In form load, create an instance:

   pcRam = new System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter("Memory", "Available MBytes");

And on the tick event, display the available memory:

   txtRAM.Text = pcRam.NextValue() + " MB";