How do I measure separate CPU core usage for a process?

Question

Is there any way to measure a specific process CPU usage by cores?

I know top is good for measuring the whole system\'s CPU usage by cores and taskset can provide inform

Answer 1

I had just this problem and I found a similar answer here.

The method is to set top the way you want it and then press W (capital W). This saves top's current layout to a configuration file in $HOME/.toprc

Although this might not work if you want to run multiple top's with different configurations.

So via what I consider a work around you can write to different config files / use different config files by doing one of the following...

1) Rename the binary

  ln -s /usr/bin/top top2
  ./top2

Now .top2rc is going to be written to your $HOME

2) Set $HOME to some alternative path, since it will write its config file to the $HOME/.binary-name.rc file

HOME=./
top

Now .toprc is going to be written to the current folder.

Via use of other peoples comments to add the various usage accounting in top you can create a batch output for that information and latter coalesces the information via a script. Maybe not quite as simple as you script but I found top to provide me ALL processes so that later I can recap and capture a state during a long run that I might have missed otherwise (unexplained sudden CPU usage due to stray processes)