ps
Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 02 February 2019
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NAME
ps - list detailed information about processes
SYNOPSIS
WA2LWinTools/lib/shell/ps
[
-?
]
ps
[
-d
][
-m
][
-x
][
-t
][
-s
[
n
] [
-r
n
] [
\\computer
[
-u
username
] [
-p
password
]] [[
-e
]
name
|
pid
]
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/WinTools
DESCRIPTION
The default behavior of
ps
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.
Memory abbreviation Key:
All memory values are displayed in KB.
- Pri
-
Priority
- Thd
-
Number of Threads
- Hnd
-
Number of Handles
- VM
-
Virtual Memory
- WS
-
Working Set
- Priv
-
Private Virtual Memory
- Priv Pk
-
Private Virtual Memory Peak
- Faults
-
Page Faults
- NonP
-
Non-Paged Pool
- Page
-
Paged Pool
- Cswtch
-
Context Switches
OPTIONS
- -?
-
print usage information.
- ps exp
-
would show statistics for all the processes
that start with "exp", which would
include Explorer.
- -d
-
Show thread detail.
- -m
-
Show memory detail.
- -x
-
Show processes, memory information and threads.
- -t
-
Show process tree.
- -s [ n ]
-
Run in task-manager mode, for optional
seconds
specified.
Press Escape to abort.
- -r n
-
Task-manager mode refresh rate in
seconds
(default is
1).
- \\computer
-
Instead of showing process information for the
local system,
ps
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.
- -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
ps
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
ps
from batch files.
If you specify an account name and omit the
-p
option
ps
prompts you interactively for a password.
- name
-
Show information about processes that begin
with the name specified.
- -e
-
Exact match the process name.
- pid
-
Instead of listing all the running processes
in the system, this parameter narrows
ps's
scan to the process that has the specified
PID.
Thus:
ps 53
would dump statistics for the process with
the PID 53.
ENVIRONMENT
-
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
operation succeeded.
- 1
-
operation failed.
FILES
-
EXAMPLES
-
SEE ALSO
wintoolsintro(1),
config(1m),
wtshell(1m),
https://www.sysinternals.com/downloads/pslist
NOTES
Parts of this manpage were extracted from the documentation of
pslist
written by Mark Russinovich and modified to fit to the WA2L/WinTools package.
See:
https://www.sysinternals.com/downloads/pslist
for more information.
BUGS
-
AUTHOR
pslist was developed by Mark Russinovich and
integrated as ps into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports related to the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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