Re: [Gumstix-users] Program for benchmark

[Craig R H. <cr...@gu...>]

albertd wrote:

a> Uptime is put on the stix in the current buildroot, busybox ps is is also
a> there but it does not print out much.
a> 
a> The classic utility for process by process timing statistics is 'top', but I
a> do not see it in the buildroot.  I would love to find a macro scale profiling
a> utility that shows cpu usage over the lifetime of a process, but I may have
a> to write it myself unless someone else on this list has one...

the TARGET is "procps" which includes top as well as full-blown "ps" and other 
such utils.

As far as monitoring a process through its lifetime, sar and friends sort of do 
that for you.  Or you can combine ps with rrdtool or something, depending on 
what you want to track.

C