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NT Thread Table

In the Windows operating system, the kernel schedules threads to run on the processors. A thread is a part of a process that runs program code. A process may contain one or many threads.

Use the NT Thread table to obtain detailed status information for each thread executing on the system.

Class: ntThreadEntry

Instance: value of ntThreadPID and ntThreadNumber attributes for the specific thread

The NT Thread table lets you monitor the following thread information:

• Process to which the thread belongs (ntThreadPID)
• Number of seconds the thread has been running (ntThreadProcTime)
• Percentage of time that the thread has run in user and privileged modes (ntThreadUserTime, ntThreadPrivTime)
• Number of context switches (ntThreadContextSwitches)
• Amount of time the thread has been running (ntThreadElapsedTime)
• Base and current priority (ntThreadPriorityBase, ntThreadPriority)
• Reason a thread is waiting if it is in a wait state (ntThreadWaitReason)
• Starting virtual address (ntThreadStartAddr)
• Current state of the thread (ntThreadState)
• Thread ID (ntThreadID)