Hi,
thanks to both! I will take a look at the proc files!
* James T. Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>
>> Greetings!
>> Fabian
>
> If you're on a Linux system you might be far better accessing
> the /proc/$PID/stat files directly. The values you'd find therein
> are documented:
>
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/proc.5.html
>
> (among other places).
>
> Of course you could write you code to look for file and fall back
> to use the 'ps' command if it fails. In addition you can supply
> arguments to the 'ps' command to limit it to reporting just on the
> process(es) in which you are interested ... and to eliminate the
> header line and irrelevant columns of output.
Greetings!
Fabian
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