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Per-Process Analysis

These tools are process oriented and use counters that the kernel maintains Per-Process

  1. ps - show process status, various process statistics, including memory and CPU usage
  2. top - Show top processes, sorted by CPU usage or another statistics
  3. pmap - List process memory segments with usage statistics

These tools typically read statistics from the /proc ephemeral file-system.