How to check 'how much ram and cpu a process is consuming'

DANNDP · Post by **DANNDP** » 2010/03/19 18:35:51

Hello my friends,

I'm trying to check how much ram memmory and CPU is a particular process consuming, i have checked free -m and top but is not esay to undesrtand the output from CPU

What i need is to check the consuming for a particular process; with free -m i'm able to see only the available space of memmry and i want to know how much is consuming a particular process, the same with 'top'

It's hard ot understan the output from top, to many columns and MAY process, not easy to check the process i want to monitor

Thanks in advance for your help

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2010/03/19 18:47:42

man top
top -p -p ...

DANNDP · Post by **DANNDP** » 2010/03/19 19:21:25

Thanks Phil,

Do you see any weird here:
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21040 root 15 0 30180 12m 5788 S 0.0 0.3 2:08.19 asterisk
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Thanks again!

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2010/03/19 19:28:57

Not that I can spot. Watching the change over time might tell you something. Should asterisk run as root?

DANNDP · Post by **DANNDP** » 2010/03/19 21:04:30

Thanks Phil,

What should i check over the time? the problem is that this application (Asterisk) get freezed "some times" and i want to know why?

Whats the meaning of PR? NI? VIRT? RES? SHR? S? %CPU? %MEM? TIME+?

Thanks in advance my friend

Regards!

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2010/03/19 21:37:38

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DANNDP wrote:
What should i check over the time? the problem is that this application (Asterisk) get freezed "some times" and i want to know why?[/quote]
My guess is primarily CPU and MEM. May also want to keep an eye on swap usage.

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Whats the meaning of PR? NI? VIRT? RES? SHR? S? %CPU? %MEM? TIME+?
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man top

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