UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,
How can i find out the average cpu utilization of a particular long-running process in UNIX? is there some command for this

Thanks

What Operating System and version do you have?
What Shell do you use?

What does a sample "ps" (or "top" or whatever) command line and matching output look like which shows an example of the rogue process?

Need to identify exactly how you identify the process and what version (or versions) of the unix "ps" command you have available.
With a decent Berkeley "ps" you should be able to get the elapsed time and total CPU time used for a single running process.
There are other versions of "ps" where determining the elapsed time of a process is not at all easy.
It's all about whether you have "ps -o ....".

Hi methyl,

i use UNIX operating system
and the java process will take more cpu utilisation value..
i wanna use this %cpu value in report.....
can u help me out?

Version of unix:

Code:

uname -a

Shell:

Code:

echo $SHELL

Any command which you know which shows the process?
?????????