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On 2013-04-30 17:38, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 04/30/2013 12:25 PM, Rita wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if it possible to write a python wrapper which will account
>> my processes. I would like to account for all the children processes (fork)
>> by looking at their /proc/<pid> info. Such as memory, io, open files,
>> stats.
>>
>> So, instead of me running "/bin/sleep 10", i would like to run it as
>> "pywrap.py /bin/sleep 10" and it will do an exec /bin/sleep 10 and do a
>> periodic snapshot for whats in /proc/<pid>/stats.
>
> I only understood a quarter of that.  But if you want to sleep, why not just
> call  time.sleep ?

I think that was just a placeholder example, not the program he actually wants 
to measure.

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