[Nottingham] Process CPU and memory usage?

[Peter Chang]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Camilo Mesias wrote:
[...]
> Have you considered doing something with top, maybe configuring it to
> run in batch mode at an interval of your choice? Top reads /proc, and
> it is fairly costly (but you may be able to mitigate by having a
> longer interval)

Isn't ps(1) a better option than top(1)? It has an option to take a parent 
PID too!

There may be built-in tools in one of the scripting languages (Perl, 
Python, etc) as well.

Peter


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