Finding out what a process is doing

[Fernando Duran]

--- Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have a process (opcmona related to OpenView) that
> is using more CPU
> resources than normal.  Is there a way to get some
> idea about what this
> process is doing?

Hi,

lsof and ptrace is a good start.

Fernando 

> 
> PID USER   PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM  
> TIME CPU COMMAND
> 9998 root   25   0  6996 6992  4992 R    24.7  0.0 
> 4081m   0 opcmona
> 
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