Retrieve CPU usage and memory usage of a single process on Linux?

Question

I want to get the CPU and memory usage of a single process on Linux - I know the PID. Hopefully, I can get it every second and write it to a CSV using the \'watch\' command

Answer 1

For those who struggled for a while wonderring why the selected answer does not work:

ps -p <pid> -o %cpu,%mem

No SPACE ibetween %cpu, and %mem.

Answer 2

ps axo pid,etime,%cpu,%mem,cmd | grep 'processname' | grep -v grep

PID - Process ID

etime - Process Running/Live Duration

%cpu - CPU usage

%mem - Memory usage

cmd - Command

Replace processname with whatever process you want to track, mysql nginx php-fpm etc ...

Answer 3

CPU and memory usage of a single process on Linux or you can get the top 10 cpu utilized processes by using below command

ps -aux --sort -pcpu | head -n 11

Answer 4

You could use top -b and grep out the pid you want (with the -b flag top runs in batch mode), or also use the -p flag and specify the pid without using grep.

Answer 5

Based on @caf's answer, this working nicely for me.

Calculate average for given PID:

measure.sh

times=100
total=0
for i in $(seq 1 $times)
do
   OUTPUT=$(top -b -n 1 -d 0.1 -p $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}')
   echo -n "$i time: ${OUTPUT}"\\r
   total=`echo "$total + $OUTPUT" | bc -l`
done
#echo "Average: $total / $times" | bc

average=`echo "scale=2; $total / $times" | bc`
echo "Average: $average"

Usage:

# send PID as argument
sh measure.sh 3282

Answer 6

ps -p <pid> -o %cpu,%mem,cmd

(You can leave off "cmd" but that might be helpful in debugging).

Note that this gives average CPU usage of the process over the time it has been running.