Process Statistics

Acquire stats from a process.

Installation

npm install 

Usage

The module run an express server that listens on port 3000. To run:

npm start  

It has two endpoints:

• /trace/:pid : it starts the tracing of a process having a specifc pid.
• /stop : it stops the acquisition and writes a stats.csv file.

Top Explanation

VIRT, RES, SHR and %MEM These three fields are related with to memory consumption of the processes.

• “VIRT” is the total amount of memory consumed by a process. This includes the program’s code, the data stored by the process in memory, as well as any regions of memory that have been swapped to the disk.
• “RES” is the memory consumed by the process in RAM.
• “%MEM” expresses this value as a percentage of the total RAM available.
• “SHR” is the amount of memory shared with other processes.

Development

• express
• topparser