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process-list
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Cross-platform native method to receive the list of the launched processes
npm i process-list
# or
yarn add process-list
It's that easy! npm will download one of the prebuilt binaries for your OS. If you need to build process-list
, see node-gyp for more details.
Windows
Windows 7+, Windows Server 2008 R2+Linux
any Linux-based distributivesOS X
Soon...const { snapshot } = require("process-list");
const tasks = await snapshot('pid', 'name');
console.log(tasks);
// output
// [{
// name: "1.exe",
// pid: 1234,
// }, ... ]
snapshot(...field: String): Promise<[]Object>
Returns the list of the launched processes.
allowedFields: []String
List of allowed fields.
pid: Number
- process pidppid: Number
- parent process pidname: String
- process name (title)path: String
- full path to the process binary filethreads: Number
- threads per processowner: String
- the owner of the processpriority: Number
- an os-specific process prioritycmdline: String
- full command line of the processstarttime: Date
- the process start date / timevmem: String
- virtual memory size in bytes used by processpmem: String
- physical memory size in bytes used by processcpu: Number
- cpu usage by process in percentutime: String
- amount of time in ms that this process has been scheduled in user modestime: String
- amount of time that in ms this process has been scheduled in kernel modeMIT, Copyright © 2014 - 2019 Dmitry Tsvettsikh
FAQs
Cross-platform method to receive the list of the launched processes
The npm package process-list receives a total of 23 weekly downloads. As such, process-list popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that process-list demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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