Is there any way to get ps output programmatically?
I've got a webserver that I'm presently benchmarking for CPU usage. What I'm doing is essentially running one process to slam the server with requests, then running the following bash script to determine the CPU usage: #! /bin/bash for (( ;; )) do echo "`python -c 'import time; print time.time()'`, `ps -p $1 -o '%cpu' | grep -vi '%CPU'`" sleep 5 done It would be nice to be able to do this in Python so I can run it in one script instead of having to run two. I can't seem to find any platform independent (or at least platform independent to linux and OS X) way to get the ps output in Python