Retrieve CPU usage and memory usage of a single process on Linux?

ps -p <pid> -o %cpu,%mem,cmd

(You can leave off "cmd" but that might be helpful in debugging).

Note that this gives average CPU usage of the process over the time it has been running.

ps command (should not use):

• CPU usage is currently expressed as the percentage of time spent running during the entire lifetime of a process.

top command (should use):

• The task's share of the elapsed CPU time since the last screen update, expressed as a percentage of total CPU time.

Use top to get CPU usage in real time(current short interval):

top -b -n 2 -d 0.2 -p 6962 | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'

will echo like: 78.6

• -b: Batch-mode
• -n 2: Number-of-iterations, use 2 because: When you first run it, it has no previous sample to compare to, so these initial values are the percentages since boot.
• -d 0.2: Delay-time(in second, here is 200ms)
• -p 6962: Monitor-PIDs
• tail -1: the last row
• awk '{print $9}': the 9-th column(the cpu usage number)

You could use top -b and grep out the pid you want (with the -b flag top runs in batch mode), or also use the -p flag and specify the pid without using grep.

The following command gets the average of CPU and memory usage every 40 seconds for a specific process(pid)

pidstat 40 -ru -p <pid>

Output for my case(first two lines for CPU usage, second two lines for memory):

02:15:07 PM       PID    %usr %system  %guest    %CPU   CPU  Command
02:15:47 PM     24563    0.65    0.07    0.00    0.73     3  java

02:15:07 PM       PID  minflt/s  majflt/s     VSZ    RSS   %MEM  Command
02:15:47 PM     24563      6.95      0.00 13047972 2123268   6.52  java

For those who struggled for a while wonderring why the selected answer does not work:

ps -p <pid> -o %cpu,%mem

No SPACE ibetween %cpu, and %mem.

To get the memory usage of just your application (as opposed to the shared libraries it uses, you need to use the Linux smaps interface). This answer explains it well.

All of the answers here show only the memory percentage for the PID.

Here's an example of how to get the rss memory usage in KB for all apache processes, replace "grep apache" with "grep PID" if you just want to watch a specific PID:

watch -n5 "ps aux -y | grep apache | awk '{print \$2,\$6}'"

This prints:

Every 5.0s: ps aux -y | grep apache | awk '{print $2,$6}'                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Thu Jan 25 15:44:13 2018

12588 9328
12589 8700
12590 9392
12591 9340
12592 8700
12811 15200
15453 9340
15693 3800
15694 2352
15695 1352
15697 948
22896 9360

With CPU %:

watch -n5 "ps aux -y | grep apache | awk '{print \$2,\$3,\$6}'"

Output:

Every 5.0s: ps aux -y | grep apache | awk '{print $2,$3,$6}'                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Thu Jan 25 15:46:00 2018

12588 0.0 9328
12589 0.0 8700
12590 0.0 9392
12591 0.0 9340
12592 0.0 8700
12811 0.0 15200
15453 0.0 9340
15778 0.0 3800
15779 0.0 2352
15780 0.0 1348
15782 0.0 948
22896 0.0 9360

This is a nice trick to follow one or more programs in real time while also watching some other tool's output: watch "top -bn1 -p$(pidof foo),$(pidof bar); tool"

Based on @caf's answer, this working nicely for me.

Calculate average for given PID:

measure.sh

times=100
total=0
for i in $(seq 1 $times)
do
   OUTPUT=$(top -b -n 1 -d 0.1 -p $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}')
   echo -n "$i time: ${OUTPUT}"\\r
   total=`echo "$total + $OUTPUT" | bc -l`
done
#echo "Average: $total / $times" | bc

average=`echo "scale=2; $total / $times" | bc`
echo "Average: $average"

Usage:

# send PID as argument
sh measure.sh 3282

Above list out the top cpu and memory consuming process

        ps axo %cpu,%mem,command | sort -nr | head

Based on @Neon answer, my two cents here:

pidstat -h -r -u -v -p $(ps aux | grep <process name> | awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ',')

Based on this answer we can estimate the average CPU and memory utilization of a specific process for a specific amount of time by collecting N samples with sampling period T as follows:

N=3;
T=1;
PROCESS_NAME="my_proc";

top -b -c -n $(let tmp=N+1; echo $tmp) -d ${T} -p $(pgrep ${PROCESS_NAME}) | 
grep ${PROCESS_NAME} |  
tee /var/tmp/foo.log |
tail -n +2 | 
awk -v N=$N 'BEGIN{
                c=0; 
                m=0
            }{
                c=c+$9; 
                m=m+$10
            }END{
                printf("%s %s\n", c/N, m/N) 
            }';

In order to be able to evaluate the results we are collecting the output of the top into the /var/tmp/foo.log file. The expected output is something like this:

2.33333 6.9

And the content of our log file:

196918 root      20   0   24.4g   1.3g 113872 S   0.0   6.9  39:58.15 my_proc
196918 root      20   0   24.4g   1.3g 113872 S   2.0   6.9  39:58.17 my_proc
196918 root      20   0   24.4g   1.3g 113872 S   3.0   6.9  39:58.20 my_proc
196918 root      20   0   24.4g   1.3g 113872 S   2.0   6.9  39:58.22 my_proc

Note that we ignore (tail -n +2) the first execution of the top command.

I use htop

sudo apt install htop
htop

Press F3 to search the process you are interested in and remember the PID. Quit with q and start htop again showing the process you want only

htop -p $PID