Like tasklist, but 10x faster.
Name Process Time System Context Page Total I/O
Calls Switches Faults
fastlist 0:00:00.014 7331 1879 1774 176124
tasklist 0:00:00.165 124549 51150 9017 4001389
For each process, fastlist prints (1) the process ID, (2) the parent process ID, and (3) the executable file, each separated by a \t, followed by a \n. For example:
> fastlist.exe
0 0 [System Process]
4 0 System
72 4 Secure System
128 4 Registry
520 4 smss.exe
776 640 csrss.exe
864 640 wininit.exe
...fastlist is faster than tasklist, presumably, because it does not print the session name, session number, nor the memory usage of each process. Unlike tasklist, it does, however, print the parent process ID.
- v0.3.0 (June 15, 2020): Include runtime library; Revert packing binaries
- v0.2.1 (May 23, 2020): Packed binaries
- v0.2.0 (May 23, 2020): Unicode support; x86 and x64 build
- v0.1.0 (Oct 5, 2018): Initial release
fastlistwas originally built for use in sindresorhus/ps-list (see sindresorhus/ps-list#20).- It is inspired by performance issues with existing solutions (for example, sindresorhus/fkill#25).
- Being included in npmjs.com/ps-list,
fastlistis downloaded more than 1,000,000 times per week. - Reddit rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, it is not a virus.
- Its author helps to maintain the Node wrapper for
tasklist: sindresorhus/tasklist.
- Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio, including its workload for Desktop Development with C++. In VS, create a new Console App. Copy
fastlist.cppinto the project and build it. - To benchmark
fastlist, runbench.cmd. - To test
fastlist, runtest.cmd.
MIT