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Monitor single process to logfile perodicly

Based on this question, I would like to log the performance of a specific process, with a frequency of say one second, to a csv (comma separated value) log file. Something like: ...
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Measuring CPU and Memory per user to distribute “cost” of a server

How should I implement approximately correct per-user monitoring on a server? I want a way to split the cost of a server between the users based on their usage. On newer machines (RHEL6) I would use ...
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Unpredictable memory explosions

The main server at my company has recently been having a lot of downtime. For reasons that neither I nor the other admins can determine, it has random (VERY sudden) explosions in memory. It becomes ...
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Linux system calls

I want to obtain information about memory used by different users and different processes which users are running and statistics about those processes like memory consumption ,execution speed etc ...
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How can I test the system footprint of applications?

I am about to develop a piece of software and I want to ascertain the impact it has on my system. The main things I am look for are load times, memory and CPU usage and shutdown time, although I would ...
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Is there a tool that allows logging of memory usage?

I want to monitor memory usage of a process, and I want this data to be logged. Does such a tool exist?
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What is “System Memory ” displayed in nmon in AIX?

I have a host with AIX 6.1 (6100-04-02-1007) upgraded from AIX 5.1 with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1. Since the upgrade from AIX 5.3 to 6.1, Run vx services means a lots of memory consumed that I ...
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How to track down memory spikes?

I have an app running on rackspace cloud (ubuntu 10.04). For some reason, over the last 3 nights, the memory has been spiking and then leveling off for about 7 hours before eventually falling off. ...