>I'm trying to use GetProcessMemoryInfo to get the workingsetsize of my
>process.
>The function is called in my own process, so I think that I've got all the
>privileges.
>The program is written with multithread.
>And I create a timer to periodically get workingsetsize of my process.
>But to my surprise, no matter I put the PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS variable
>locally in the function or I set the PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS variable as
>global, I alway get 0 after I call GetProcessMemoryInfo in the timer callback
>function.

"David Lowndes" wrote:
> >I'm trying to use GetProcessMemoryInfo to get the workingsetsize of my
> >process.
> >The function is called in my own process, so I think that I've got all the
> >privileges.
> >The program is written with multithread.
> >And I create a timer to periodically get workingsetsize of my process.
> >But to my surprise, no matter I put the PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS variable
> >locally in the function or I set the PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS variable as
> >global, I alway get 0 after I call GetProcessMemoryInfo in the timer callback
> >function.

> Is the timer or separate thread significant - what do you get if you
> call it from your main thread?

> The following snippet works for me in a console application:

>    PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS mc;

>    if ( GetProcessMemoryInfo( GetCurrentProcess(), &mc, sizeof(
> mc ) ) != 0 )
>    {
>            printf( "%WorkingSetSize: %d\n", mc.WorkingSetSize );
>    }

> Dave

>It's true that I try to call the function in my main function.
>It returns the write number.
>But after that, my program aborted abnormally.

"David Lowndes" wrote:
> >It's true that I try to call the function in my main function.
> >It returns the write number.
> >But after that, my program aborted abnormally.

> Why?

> Dave

>No error box arises before my program terminates.
>Now I have to write another program and record the workingsetsize.
>Just wonder why the program can't get its own workingsetsize correctly.

Kun Niu wrote:
> "David Lowndes" wrote:

>>> It's true that I try to call the function in my main function.
>>> It returns the write number.
>>> But after that, my program aborted abnormally.

>> Why?

>> Dave

> Thanks again for your attention and fast reply.
> This is also what I'm after.
> No error box arises before my program terminates.

> Now I have to write another program and record the workingsetsize.
> Just wonder why the program can't get its own workingsetsize
> correctly. Or do I have any other way to work around this?
> Get the same result with another  API.
> Thanks for any attention and reply in advance.