pidusage

Cross-platform process cpu % and memory usage of a PID.

Synopsis

Ideas from https://github.com/arunoda/node-usage but with no C-bindings.

Please note that if you need to check a Node.JS script process cpu and memory usage, you can use process.cpuUsage and process.memoryUsage since node v6.1.0. This script remain useful when you have no control over the remote script, or if the process is not a Node.JS process.

Usage

var pidusage = require('pidusage')

// Compute statistics every second:
setInterval(function () {
  pidusage(process.pid, function (err, stats) {
    console.log(stats)
    // => {
    //   cpu: 10.0,            // percentage (from 0 to 100*vcore)
    //   memory: 357306368,    // bytes
    //   ppid: 312,            // PPID
    //   pid: 727,             // PID
    //   ctime: 867000,        // ms user + system time
    //   elapsed: 6650000,     // ms since the start of the process
    //   timestamp: 864000000  // ms since epoch
    // }
  })
}, 1000)

// It supports also multiple pids
pidusage([727, 1234], function (err, stats) {
  console.log(stats)
  // => {
  //   727: {
  //     cpu: 10.0,            // percentage (from 0 to 100*vcore)
  //     memory: 357306368,    // bytes
  //     ppid: 312,            // PPID
  //     pid: 727,             // PID
  //     ctime: 867000,        // ms user + system time
  //     elapsed: 6650000,     // ms since the start of the process
  //     timestamp: 864000000  // ms since epoch
  //   },
  //   1234: {
  //     cpu: 0.1,             // percentage (from 0 to 100*vcore)
  //     memory: 3846144,      // bytes
  //     ppid: 727,            // PPID
  //     pid: 1234,            // PID
  //     ctime: 0,             // ms user + system time
  //     elapsed: 20000,       // ms since the start of the process
  //     timestamp: 864000000  // ms since epoch
  //   }
  // }
})

// If no callback is given it returns a promise instead
const stats = await pidusage(process.pid)
console.log(stats)
// => {
//   cpu: 10.0,            // percentage (from 0 to 100*vcore)
//   memory: 357306368,    // bytes
//   ppid: 312,            // PPID
//   pid: 727,             // PID
//   ctime: 867000,        // ms user + system time
//   elapsed: 6650000,     // ms since the start of the process
//   timestamp: 864000000  // ms since epoch
// }

Compatibility

Property	Linux	FreeBSD	NetBSD	SunOS	macOS	Win	AIX	Alpine
cpu	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	ℹ️	❓	✅
memory	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	✅	❓	✅
pid	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	✅	❓	✅
ctime	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	✅	❓	✅
elapsed	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	✅	❓	✅
timestamp	✅	❓	❓	❓	✅	✅	❓	✅

✅ = Working ℹ️ = Not Accurate ❓ = Should Work ❌ = Not Working

Please if your platform is not supported or if you have reported wrong readings file an issue.

API

pidusage(pids, [options = {}], [callback]) ⇒ [Promise.<Object>]

Get pid informations.

Kind: global function Returns: Promise.<Object> - Only when the callback is not provided. Access: public

Param	Type	Description
pids	Number | Array.<Number> | String | Array.<String>	A pid or a list of pids.
[callback]	function	Called when the statistics are ready. If not provided a promise is returned instead.

pidusage.clear()

If needed this function can be used to clear the event loop. Indeed, we're registering an interval to free up the in-memory metrics. By calling this, it will clear this interval and all delete all in-memory data.

Related

• pidusage-tree - Compute a pidusage tree

Authors

• Antoine Bluchet - soyuka
• Simone Primarosa - simonepri

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.