May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Identifying a resource hog with pidstat
The -top-io and -top-cpu flags will identify a top resource user, but might not provide enough information to identify the problem if there are multiple instances of a resource hog.
The pidstat program will report per-process statistics, which can be sorted to provide more insight.