Finding out what a process is doing

[Pavel Zaitsev]

You can also use 'time' to benchmark the for various parameters.

> I meant "strace" (trace system calls). Also "ldd"
> (what libraries it's using) and "ltrace" may give
> useful info. 
> 
> And of course "ps", I like the tree view: ps -auxf
> |more
> 
> "vmstat" and similar is useful too for a more complete
> picture.
> 
> You can also try and "renice" that process (reduce its
> CPU scheduling priority)


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