Listing CPU Intensive Processes in PowerShell
Published 27 Sep 2013 1:32 AM by Phil Sullivan

This sample defines a PowerShell function that lists CPU intensive processes running on a machine. If you call the function without any parameters it will list the top 5 CPU intensive processes. However, you can also pass to the function the number of items you wanted returned along with a name mask for matching processes. 

                                        
  Function Get-ExpensiveProcesses([int] $processCount = 5,[string] $optionalMask = "*") {
    Get-Process $optionalMask | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select-Object -first $processCount
  }

Examples of using this sample:

                                        
  C:\Windows\system32> ListExpensiveProcesses
  C:\Windows\system32> ListExpensiveProcesses 10
  C:\Windows\system32> ListExpensiveProcesses 10 "*svchost*"

Tip: Get-Process has a "-ComputerName" switch which allows you to list processes from another machine. You could modify this script to also take a machine name parameter.

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