Get CPU Usage from Windows Command Prompt
WindowsCommand PromptWindows Problem Overview
How would I get total CPU Usage from Windows Command Prompt?:
Expected Output:
27%
Windows Solutions
Solution 1 - Windows
C:\> wmic cpu get loadpercentage
LoadPercentage
0
Or
C:\> @for /f "skip=1" %p in ('wmic cpu get loadpercentage') do @echo %p%
4%
Solution 2 - Windows
The following works correctly on Windows 7 Ultimate from an elevated command prompt:
C:\Windows\system32>typeperf "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time"
"(PDH-CSV 4.0)","\\vm\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time"
"02/01/2012 14:10:59.361","0.648721"
"02/01/2012 14:11:00.362","2.986384"
"02/01/2012 14:11:01.364","0.000000"
"02/01/2012 14:11:02.366","0.000000"
"02/01/2012 14:11:03.367","1.038332"
The command completed successfully.
C:\Windows\system32>
Or for a snapshot:
C:\Windows\system32>wmic cpu get loadpercentage
LoadPercentage
8
Solution 3 - Windows
typeperf "\processor(_total)\% processor time"
does work on Win7, you just need to extract the percent value yourself from the last quoted string.
Solution 4 - Windows
typeperf
gives me issues when it randomly doesn't work on some computers (Error: No valid counters.
) or if the account has insufficient rights. Otherwise, here is a way to extract just the value from its output. It still needs rounding though:
@for /f "delims=, tokens=2" %p in ('typeperf "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" -sc 3 ^| find ":"') do @echo %~p%
Powershell has two cmdlets to get the percent utilization for all CPUs: Get-Counter
(preferred) or Get-WmiObject
:
Powershell "Get-Counter '\Processor(*)\% Processor Time' | Select -Expand Countersamples | Select InstanceName, CookedValue"
Or,
Powershell "Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor | Select Name, PercentProcessorTime"
To get the overall CPU load with formatted output exactly like the question:
Powershell "[string][int](Get-Counter '\Processor(*)\% Processor Time').Countersamples[0].CookedValue + '%'"
Or,
Powershell "gwmi Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor | Select -First 1 | %{'{0}%' -f $_.PercentProcessorTime}"
Solution 5 - Windows
For anyone that stumbles upon this page, none of the solutions here worked for me. I found this is the way to do it (in a batch file):
@for /f "skip=1" %%p in ('wmic cpu get loadpercentage /VALUE') do (
for /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%J in ("%%p") do echo %%J
)