Re: [Lxde-list] App usage

[Mark C. <ma...@re...>]

On 25/05/14 05:14, Stephan Sokolow wrote:
> That CPU usage will be wildly inaccurate for bursty tasks though I can
> see the benefit to logging memory consumption once every minute.

The actual figure is not important but as a guide for sorting the order
of most recently used programs I think it's reasonably accurate and useful.
I'm checking my mail atm so TB hits top spot and this is indeed a reasonable
summation of my most used programs after being left on all night.

~ appup | head
  7.7   211052 thunderbird
  1.7    64344 smplayer
  1.5   108332 kwin
  0.6    63040 lxqt-panel
  0.2    46636 konsole
  0.0    48964 pcmanfm-qt
  0.0    43080 lxqt-runner
  0.0    43064 qasmixer
  0.0    38208 kactivitymanage
  0.0    36676 lxqt-notificati

> Ideally, you'd want to include something which somehow asks the kernel
> for auditing data and records each process's cumulative CPU time and
> wall time on exit (as well as any memory statistics offered) so you
> don't miss any short-lived processes.

Some comprehensive kernel level usage audit of all programs per user would
be brilliant and, aside from being hard to do, I'm not sure why it doesn't
exist as I would love to have a easy to digest report summary of what
resources my computer actually uses. What I am suggesting is something
super simple that could get maybe 75% of the way there.