Need to write a code in C to find the top 10 process which are utilizing most of the
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Hey I have to make a tool to monitor the top 10 processes utilizing the most of the CPU. Need to write a c code.. can any one help from which system file I can read the cpu utilization. tried getting info from proc/<pid>/stat statm status .
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Thanks for the response but I need to write a c code for getting the top 10 processes that are using the most cpu..
/proc/<PID>/ folder contains folder like stat statm status which contains a lot of information like utime stime ....
Can I use these info to calculate the cpu usage?
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