track cpu usage of linux application

[Zed A. Shaw]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:56:20 +0000
Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>     I would like to track the cpu usage of a couple of
>     programs using python. Maybe it works somehow with
>     piping 'top' to python read the cpu load for a greped
>     application and clocking the the first and last
>     appearence. Is that a good approach or does anyone have
>     a more elegant way to do that?

Look at the /proc filesystem instead.  For example, you can do this:

cat /proc/49595/status

To get information about that process.  Using this you can find out
anything you need with just basic file operations.

Use: man proc to find our more.

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