{"id":64,"date":"2007-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/05\/process-peeking\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T20:00:00","slug":"process-peeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/process-peeking\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Peeking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been kicking around PowerGadgets<\/a> a bit more.  The latest version has some new features I hope to write about in the near future. In the meantime, I want to demonstrate again how handy their gadgets are.<\/p>\n

I run a lot of stuff on my computer, probably too much. Anyway, I often am morbidly curious about how much RAM different apps or processes are using. In PowerShell that is simple enough to discover with the Get-Process cmdlet. What I’m most interested in is the workingset size. By piping Get-Process to Sort, I can sort the output on a specific property and specify I want it in descending order.<\/p>\n

Get-Process |sort workingset -desc<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

That’s pretty handy right there. But I only want to see the top 10 “offenders”. To accomplish that I continue to pass the objects to the Select cmdlet. This cmdlet has a parameter called -first which will display, naturally, the first X number of objects.<\/p>\n

Get-Process |sort workingset -desc | select -first 10 <\/font><\/p>\n

Getting better. But all I really care about is the Name and WorkingSet size. So I modify my expression to select just those properties.<\/p>\n

Get-Process |sort workingset -desc | select Name,Workingset -first 10 | format-table -auto<\/font><\/p>\n

Here’ a little tip, however you type the properties in the Select statement, is how they will display as table headings. Make your property names case-proper and your output will look nicer. <\/p>\n

Speaking of output, let’s get to PowerGadgets. All that is left is for me to pipe everything I’ve come up with so far to the Out-Chart cmdlet. <\/p>\n

Get-Process |sort workingset -desc | select Name,Workingset -first 10 `
| out-chart -floating -values Workingset -label Name<\/font> <\/p>\n

 This will produce a bar chart of the top 10 processes that looks something like this:
 \"top10processes.png\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, I can add the -Refresh parameter to Out-Chart which will automatically update the chart. <\/p>\n

Get-Process |sort workingset -desc | select Name,Workingset -first 10 | out-chart -floating -values Workingset -label Name -refresh 00:02:00<\/font><\/p>\n

The -Refresh time is in Hour:Min:Sec. There are a number of cool things you can do with Out-Chart, but I’ll leave it to you to try them out.
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Technorati tags: PowerShell<\/a>, PowerGadgets<\/a>, Out-Process<\/a>, Out-Chart<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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