Tacking a specific apps cpu resource usage

[Dale Sykora]

Harry Putnam wrote:

> I'm pretty sure what I want to do is possible but sort of lost as to
> how to approach this.
> 
> I'd like to track resource usage of a specific app over time.  All I
> came up with is running a looping script using `ps' and `grep' every
> few minutes.
Another approach might be to call the app from a shell script that logs 
info you want.

create a script

mv some-app other-app-name
mv script some-name


With a script you could log start/stop times, user info, etc.