Get running processes
npm install ps-list> Get running processes
Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Windows ARM64 is not supported yet.
``sh`
npm install ps-list
`js
import psList from 'ps-list';
console.log(await psList());
//=> [{pid: 3213, name: 'node', cmd: 'node test.js', ppid: 1, uid: 501, cpu: 0.1, memory: 1.5, path: '/usr/local/bin/node', startTime: 2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z}, …]
`
Returns a Promise with the running processes.
On macOS and Linux:
- The name property is truncated to 15 characters by the systemcmd
- The property contains the full command line with argumentscpu
- The property is the CPU usage percentage (0-100)memory
- The property is the memory usage percentage (0-100)path
- The property is a best-effort attempt to get the full executable path:/proc/{pid}/exe
- On Linux: reads from when availablecomm
- On macOS: extracted from command line when possible
- Falls back to (which may be truncated)startTime
- The property contains the process start time as a Date object
The cmd, cpu, memory, uid, path, and startTime properties are not available on Windows.
#### options
Type: object
##### all
Type: boolean\true`
Default:
Include other users' processes as well as your own.
On Windows this has no effect and will always be the user's own processes.
- fastlist - The binary used in this module to list the running processes on Windows