What do the headers in the PowerShell ps output mean?

If I type ps in PowerShell, I obtain something like:

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- ----------- 45 2 524 1812 12 376 AEstSrv 40 2 624 2028 13 484 agrsmsvc 137 5 1540 4760 50 1568 atieclxx 123 4 996 3196 27 920 atiesrxx 122 5 15584 14688 46 4816 audiodg 138 5 1536 4808 55 6132 audiosrv 

Can someone give me the definitions of the various headers here?

1 Answer

If you type

get-help get-process -full 

You will get an explanation of these terms. Here it is:

The default display of a process is a table that includes the following columns:

-- Handles: The number of handles that the process has opened.

-- NPM(K): The amount of non-paged memory that the process is using, in kilobytes.

-- PM(K): The amount of pageable memory that the process is using, in kilobytes.

-- WS(K): The size of the working set of the process, in kilobytes. The working set consists of the pages of memory that were recently referenced by the process.

-- VM(M): The amount of virtual memory that the process is using, in megabytes. Virtual memory includes storage in the paging files on disk.

-- CPU(s): The amount of processor time that the process has used on all processors, in seconds.

-- ID: The process ID (PID) of the process.

-- ProcessName: The name of the process.