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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting CPU Usage of a process Post 302539074 by matt9949 on Friday 15th of July 2011 05:58:22 AM
Old 07-15-2011
CPU Usage of a process
Hi guys,

I am currently writing a JAVA script to monitor certain unix processes through JConsole.

Upon having lots of trouble with runtime.exec, i decided to bypass the top/ps command call and just get the information straight from /proc/*pid*/whatever.

Now i can pull back any information from any of the files I want, and the current way i determine the CPU usage of a process is as follows:

Add the UTime and STime of that process from /proc/pid/stat then divide my pidCpu by UTime + STime + NTime from /proc/stat, then multiply that by 100, should give me the % cpu usage a process is using, right?

Theory being if I get the jiffies assigned to my process, I can divide that by the total jiffies the cpu assigns.

However, my results seem to vary from the ones gathered from top and ps. What am I doing wrong?

Any input is appreciated.
 

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jvisualvm

jvisualvm(1)						      General Commands Manual						      jvisualvm(1)

NAME

       jvisualvm - Java Virtual Machine Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Profiling Tool

SYNOPSIS

	       jvisualvm [ options ]

PARAMETERS

       Options,  if used, should follow immediately after the command name. Options may be in any order. For a discussion of parameters that apply
       to a specific option, see OPTIONS below.

DESCRIPTION

       Java VisualVM is an intuitive graphical user interface that provides detailed information about Java  technology-based  applications  (Java
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       Java VisualVM combines several monitoring, troubleshooting, and profiling utilities into a single tool. For example, most of the  function-
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OPTIONS

       The following option is possible when you launch Java VisualVM.

	     -J<jvm_option>
		Pass this <jvm_option> to the JVM software.

USAGE

       Java VisualVM is useful to Java application developers to troubleshoot applications and to monitor and improve  the  applications'  perfor-
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       Start Java VisualVM with the following command:

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SEE ALSO

       For more details about Java VisualVM see the following pages.

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	  o Java VisualVM in Java SE platform documentation @
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