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Example 1: Output Process and Thread Status to a Log File

In this example, you want to output process and thread status information to a logfile called mystatus_log.txt. Type the following at the command prompt:

pstat > mystatus_log.txt

PStat will output all running processes, threads, and their status to the mystatus_log.txt file. The logfile will look similar to the following:

Pstat version 0.3:  memory: 130528 kb  uptime:  0  4:28:15.709 

PageFile: \??\C:\pagefile.sys
		Current Size: 196608 kb  Total Used:  56464 kb   Peak Used  56472 kb

 Memory: 130528K Avail:  46352K  TotalWs:  84956K InRam Kernel: 2012K P:11416K
 Commit: 126696K/  90060K Limit: 315320K Peak: 155972K  Pool N: 6472K P:14312K

	User Time   Kernel Time	Ws   Faults  Commit Pri Hnd Thd Pid Name
							27444   281990						 File Cache
  0:00:00.000   4:24:06.606	20		1	 0  0	0   1   0 Idle Process
  0:00:00.000   0:00:22.953   216	 3294	36  8  252  41   4 System
  0:00:00.070   0:00:00.080   420	752	 172 11   22   3 428 smss.exe
  0:00:01.842   0:00:11.716  2296	20494	1664 13  384  12 492 csrss.exe
  0:00:12.407   0:00:15.822  3856	10159	5860 13  536  18 524 winlogon.exe
  0:00:13.799   0:00:18.536  2040	 3009	4140  9  294  15 568 services.exe
  0:00:01.151   0:00:01.241  2712	16134	4504  9  340  20 580 lsass.exe
  0:00:00.280   0:00:00.270  1772	 1345	1192  8  281  10 768 svchost.exe
  0:00:22.101   0:00:18.156  7292	16859   10420  8 1217  69 820 svchost.exe
  0:00:00.110   0:00:00.210  1132	 2173	 680  8   71   5 996 svchost.exe
  0:00:00.150   0:00:00.270  1964	 2540	2308  8  288  18 1096 svchost.exe
  0:00:00.140   0:00:01.862   936	 4325	2468  8  133   9 1140 spoolsv.exe
  0:00:05.047   0:00:06.269  3260	 2257	4508  8  101  21 1272 inojobsv.exe
  0:00:01.071   0:00:01.532   180	 4822	1700  8  117   5 1364 clisvcl.exe
  0:00:00.030   0:00:00.160   796	 1546	 808  8   82   4 1396 mdm.exe
  0:00:00.460   0:00:01.522   232	 3673	1412  8  163   5 1976 SMSAPM32.exe
  0:00:02.163   0:00:08.081  7672	 9232	7208  8  315  11 360 explorer.exe
  0:00:00.160   0:00:00.350   336	 2940	1224  8   81   2 400 launch32.exe
  0:00:00.060   0:00:00.120  1452	 2176	1072  8  106   2 456 msmsgs.exe
  0:00:00.230   0:00:00.470  1848	 2736	 540  8  135   1 276 ctfmon.exe
  0:00:00.030   0:00:00.090   792	 1000	1160  8   46   2 244 realmon.exe
  0:00:00.140   0:00:00.240   156	12256	1088  8  106   4 1800 SMSMon32.exe
  0:00:04.566   0:00:05.668  5868	13318	8720  8  501  12 1912 OUTLOOK.EXE
  0:00:16.223   0:00:12.127  4996	10896   10060  8  257   3 1768 WINWORD.EXE
  0:00:00.741   0:00:01.241  1004	 2519	1444  8   72   3 1888 SSEXP.EXE
  0:00:04.416   0:00:05.968  1420	 9512   13964  8  288   8 1092 WINPROJ.EXE
  0:00:00.010   0:00:00.040  1748	455	1416  8   23   1 1896 cmd.exe
  0:00:00.010   0:00:00.010  1096	272	 292  8   14   1 1600 pstat.exe