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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:19:16 +0530
From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage
 of a process
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Hello,

I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU 
and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can 
somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions 
to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for 
information via the /proc filesystem.

I would be grateful if you could also please mention whether the 
suggested method[s] is/are FreeBSD-specific or would be portable to 
other environments like Solaris/Linux ?


Thanks for any help.

Regards & Happy New Year
Manish Jain
invalid.pointer@gmail.com