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I am looking for a tool to monitor percentage of CPU usage a process is consuming. SAR and TOP aren't quite cutting it. Any ideas?s-)
 
What exactly do you need that top & sar can't provide? Ayjaycee - the "A" in TandA

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I need to watch cpu for an individual process regardless of whether it is in the top 15 or not. I'd like to snag some of the data and GNUplot its activity throughout the course of the day.
 
How about running this from cron every "x" minutes :-

ps -aef -o pcpu= -o pid= -o time= -o vsz= -o user= -o args= | grep process | cut -c -130 >> /var/adm/process.dat

(or some variation thereof!)

HTH Ayjaycee - the "A" in TandA

One by one, the penguins steal my sanity.
 
Thanks...can you tell me what the leading numeric fields are in the input. You have been very helpful.
 
The 1st column is %CPU(i.e. current % of CPU being used by this process).

2nd column is PID (the Process's ID number)

3rd column is TIME (the elapsed CPU time used)

4th column is VSZ (Virtual Size, in Kb, of the process)

Enjoy!

Ayjaycee - the "A" in TandA

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