Getting a thread's state and CPU utilization

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From: Dennis Jones
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:19

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Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a way to determine the state of a currently 
running thread?  I'd like to be able to find out if a thread is executing, 
terminated, or waiting on a synchronization object (such as a critical 
section or mutex).  There seems to be support for this capability in .NET 
(according to MDSN, it's in the System.Threading namespace), which suggests 
that this must be possible in Windows, but I would need to do it using Win32 
API functions.

Also, is it possible to get a thread's current CPU utilization?  For 
example, if my application is using 80-90% of the CPU resources, I'd really 
like to be able to determine which threads are very busy, and which ones are 
using little or no CPU time.

Thanks,

- Dennis

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