iOS - Get CPU usage from application

Question

Does anyone know how to obtain CPU usage for an application? It's definitely possible, because there are application in app store (Activity Monitor Touch) which can show it.

Answer 1

Update. This code is working for me:

Update 2. The thread_list was leaking, so added vm_deallocate

#import <mach/mach.h> #import <assert.h>  float cpu_usage() {     kern_return_t kr;     task_info_data_t tinfo;     mach_msg_type_number_t task_info_count;      task_info_count = TASK_INFO_MAX;     kr = task_info(mach_task_self(), TASK_BASIC_INFO, (task_info_t)tinfo, &task_info_count);     if (kr != KERN_SUCCESS) {         return -1;     }      task_basic_info_t      basic_info;     thread_array_t         thread_list;     mach_msg_type_number_t thread_count;      thread_info_data_t     thinfo;     mach_msg_type_number_t thread_info_count;      thread_basic_info_t basic_info_th;     uint32_t stat_thread = 0; // Mach threads      basic_info = (task_basic_info_t)tinfo;      // get threads in the task     kr = task_threads(mach_task_self(), &thread_list, &thread_count);     if (kr != KERN_SUCCESS) {         return -1;     }     if (thread_count > 0)         stat_thread += thread_count;      long tot_sec = 0;     long tot_usec = 0;     float tot_cpu = 0;     int j;      for (j = 0; j < (int)thread_count; j++)     {         thread_info_count = THREAD_INFO_MAX;         kr = thread_info(thread_list[j], THREAD_BASIC_INFO,                          (thread_info_t)thinfo, &thread_info_count);         if (kr != KERN_SUCCESS) {             return -1;         }          basic_info_th = (thread_basic_info_t)thinfo;          if (!(basic_info_th->flags & TH_FLAGS_IDLE)) {             tot_sec = tot_sec + basic_info_th->user_time.seconds + basic_info_th->system_time.seconds;             tot_usec = tot_usec + basic_info_th->user_time.microseconds + basic_info_th->system_time.microseconds;             tot_cpu = tot_cpu + basic_info_th->cpu_usage / (float)TH_USAGE_SCALE * 100.0;         }      } // for each thread      kr = vm_deallocate(mach_task_self(), (vm_offset_t)thread_list, thread_count * sizeof(thread_t));     assert(kr == KERN_SUCCESS);      return tot_cpu; }