{"id":4222,"date":"2013-02-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/02\/powertip-find-processes-that-use-a-lot-of-virtual-memory\/"},"modified":"2013-02-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-processes-that-use-a-lot-of-virtual-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-processes-that-use-a-lot-of-virtual-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Processes That Use A Lot of Virtual Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I produce a listing of processes on my computer that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Process<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to return a listing of all processes. Then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;and choose the&nbsp;<strong>VM<\/strong>&nbsp;alias property. Finally, send the output to the&nbsp;<strong>Format-Wide<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and select the name property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>gps<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Get-Process<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>sort<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Sort-Object<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>?<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>fw<\/strong>&nbsp;is an alias for the&nbsp;<strong>Format-Wide<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Syntax for Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">gps | sort vm | ? vm -gt 1000Mb | fw name<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Syntax for Windows PowerShell&nbsp;1.0 and 2.0:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">gps | sort vm | ? {$_.vm -gt 1000Mb} | fw name<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory. &nbsp;How can I produce a listing of processes on my computer that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet to return a listing of all processes. Then pipe the results to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;and choose the&nbsp;VM&nbsp;alias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory. &nbsp;How can I produce a listing of processes on my computer that use more than 1,000 MB of virtual memory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet to return a listing of all processes. Then pipe the results to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;and choose the&nbsp;VM&nbsp;alias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}