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Neil Knight
Neil Knight

Reputation: 48547

Find out the memory a process is using

I have a few servers that I currently have to remote onto each one and check the same component to see how much memory it is using so I can audit it on a daily basis. I was wondering if there was a way to write a script to do this? Maybe a PowerShell script?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7323

Answers (1)

Harald F.
Harald F.

Reputation: 4773

There's a couple of ways using Get-Process. You can invoke the Get-Process to find out different memory usage of processes.

If you have powershell remoting you can invoke this command through the session using Invoke-Command -Session $Session.

Not sure which one of the memory sets you would want to report on, but you can select the different memory sets of your process.

Example: 

Get-Process|select ProcessName, Path, VirtualMemorySize, PrivateMemorySize, NonpagedSystemMemorySize, PagedMemorySize, PeakPagedMemorySize

If you know the name of your process you can do the following

$process = Get-Process -Name "MyProcess.exe" 
# Access its properties or report based on its properties
$process.VirtualMemorySize

If you want the script for all servers from one host/machine you could do like following:

# Array of PSSessions or you could use $computerNames with Invoke-command -ComputerName $computerNames instead
$session = @(); 
$results = Invoke-Command -Session $sessions -ScriptBlock {
   return Get-Process -Name "MyProcess"|Select Name, Path, VirtualMemorySize
}
$results|ForEach-Object {    
   # Do something with each and every server result
}

Alternatively; you can use the Get-process directly with ComputerName if you have direct access to invoke the cmdlet remotely.

Example: 

Get-Process -ComputerName $computerNames

Upvotes: 6

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