A Closer Look at Processes and Resource Utilization

1. Tracking Processes

2. Finding Open Files with Isof

2.1 Reading the Isof Output

2.2 Using Isof

3. Tracing Program Execution and System Calls

3.1 strace

3.2 ltrace

4. Threads

4.1 Single-Threaded and Multithreaded Processes

4.2 Viewing Threads

5. Introduction to Resource Monitoring

5.1 Measuring CPU Time

5.2 Adjusting Process Priorities

5.3 Measuring CPU Performance with Load Averages

5.4 Monitoring Memory Status

5.5 Monitoring CPU and Memory Performance with vmstat

5.6 I/O Monitoring

5.7 Per-Process Monitoring with pidstat

6. Control Groups (cgroups)

6.1 Differentiating Between cgroup Versions

6.2 Viewing cgroups

6.3 Manipulating and Creating cgroups

6.4 Viewing Resource Utilization

7. Further Topics