Powershell Get CPU Percentage

Question

There doesn't seem to be any simple explanations on how to get CPU Percentage for a process in Powershell. I've googled it and searched here and I'm not seeing anything definitive. Can somebody explain in layman terms how to get CPU Percentage for a process? Thanks!

Here's something to get you started ;)

$id4u = gps | ? {$_.id -eq 412}
function get_cpu_percentage {
# Do something cool here
}
get_cpu_percentage $id4u

Solution

Using WMI:

get-wmiobject Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process | ? { $_.name -eq 'powershell' } | select name,  PercentProcessorTime

Function:

    function get_cpu_percentage ($id )
{
(get-wmiobject Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process | ? { $_.idprocess -eq $id.id }).PercentProcessorTime
}

$id4u = gps | ? {$_.id -eq 412}
get_cpu_percentage -id $id4u

Comments

[Ken J]

gps wmplayer | select cpu gives me a value of 683.484375. I'm looking for a percentage of 100%. I'm not sure how to calculate the total CPU percentage from cycles.