Check out basic monitoring tools

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For a given process we want to measure time series of CPU, memory and disk usage, e.g. log these quantities to an ascii file every second.

Please read the manuals or tutorials for these tools and see what kind of measurements they provide:

• top and variants like atop and htop
• iostat
• ...

Things to pay attention to:

• Is it possible to log to file? (If not it's pretty much useless for us.)
• Is it possible to only monitor one process? How do you tell the tool which process you want to monitor?

Make a wiki page to document what you find out.

Some random links I found with Google that might be helpful:

• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/iostat-vmstat-mpstat-examples/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iostat
• http://bobcares.com/index.php/blog/system-monitoring-using-atop/
• http://lwn.net/Articles/387202/
• http://daubers.co.uk/tag/htop/

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Other tools:

• https://code.google.com/p/psutil/
• http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html
• http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
• http://www.helleboreconsulting.com/index.php/articles/71-celero
• http://collectl.sourceforge.net
• http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr
• https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Mac only:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruments_(application)