Running Check

[gijunior]

Can anyone suggest a way i can see if my program is still running as it is computing?

I have a program that potentially could be running a loop a vbery large number of times. E.g. I am currently trying to Factor RSA 100. it is impractical for me to output at each iteration as this would be a lot of outputs(something with 100 digits).

Cheers

 

[Salem]

Which OS / compiler?


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[gijunior]

MacOs x

 

[Salem]

Mmm, that's a unix-like thing isn't it?

Does it have a 'ps' command?


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[gijunior]

my unix is poor, is that process status?

it may do. how would i check and how could i run it whilst executing?

Cheers

 

[cpjust]

I've never used a Mac, but I'm guessing they have some kind of Task Manager like Windows does. If there's no GUI for it, you'll have to try the command line.

 

[SamBones]

You can open up a command window and use the command "[tt]top[/tt]" to watch the top CPU processes. And it does have a "[tt]ps[/tt]" command.

Mac OS/X is Unix, but it's BSD based. That means if you're more familiar with a System/V derived Unix, the commands are all there, just the options and format of the output are different.

Hope this helps.