PsList 1.26

PsList 1.26 Screenshot Most UNIX operating systems ship with a command-line tool called "ps" (or something equivalent) that administrators use to view detailed information about process CPU and memory usage.

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Most UNIX operating systems ship with a command-line tool called "ps" (or something equivalent) that administrators use to view detailed information about process CPU and memory usage. Windows NT/2K comes with no such tool natively, but you can obtain similar tools with the Windows NT Workstation or Server Resource Kits. The tools in the Resource Kits, pstat and pmon, show you different types of information, and will only display data regarding the processes on the system on which you run the tools.

PsList is a tool which shows you a combination of the information obtainable individually with pmon and pstat. You can view process CPU and memory information, or thread statistics. What makes PsList more powerful than the Resource Kit tools is that you can view process and thread statistics on a remote computer.

See the September 2004 issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine for Mark's article that covers advanced usage of PsList.

The default behavior of PsList is to show CPU-oriented information for all the processes that are currently running on the local system. The information listed for each process includes the time the process has executed, the amount of time the process has executed in kernel and user modes, and the amount of physical memory that the OS has assigned the process. Command-line switches allow you to view memory-oriented process information, thread statistics, or all three types of data.

usage: pslist [-?] [-d] [-m] [-x][-t][-s [n] [-r n]][computer [-u username] [-p password]] [name | pid]

-?
Displays the supported options and the units of measurement used for output values.
-d
This switch has PsList show statistics for all active threads on the system, grouping threads with their owning process.
-m
This switch has PsList show memory-oriented information for each process, rather than the default of CPU-oriented information.
-x
With this switch PsList shows CPU, memory and thread information for each of the processes specified.
-t
Shows the tree of processes.
-s [n]
Has PsList run in task-manager-like updating mode. You can optionally specify the number of seconds it runs and abort it by pressing the escape key.
-r n
Task-manager mode refresh rate in seconds (default is 1).
name
Instead of listing all the running processes in the system, this parameter narrows PsList's scan to those processes that begin with the name process. Thus:
pslist exp
would statistics for all the processes that start with "exp", which would include Explorer.
-u
username If you want to kill a process on a remote system and the account you are executing in does not have administrative privileges on the remote system then you must login as an administrator using this command-line option. If you do not include the password with the -p option then PsList will prompt you for the password without echoing your input to the display.
-p
password This option lets you specify the login password on the command line so that you can use PsList from batch files. If you specify an account name and omit the -p option PsList prompts you interactively for a password.
computer
Instead of showing process information for the local system, PsList will show information for the NT/Win2K system specified. Include the -u switch with a username and password to login to the remote system if your security credentials do not permit you to obtain performance counter information from the remote system.
pid
Instead of listing all the running processes in the system, this parameter narrows PsList's scan to tthe process that has the specified PID. Thus:
pslist 53
would dump statistics for the process with the PID 53.

Like Windows NT/2K's built-in PerfMon monitoring tool, PsList uses the Windows NT/2K performance counters to obtain the information it displays. You can find documentation for Windows NT/2K performance counters, including the source code to Windows NT's built-in performance monitor, PerfMon, in MSDN.

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