How to get per-process CPU utilization in Linux

September 14, 2019

2019 · linux bash

This command returns the total CPU utilization of the specified process-name:

ps aux | grep process-name | awk '{sum += $3}; END {print sum}'

Breakdown of the command:

ps aux: get all processes and info
grep process-name: filter all lines with the process name. Processes such as httpd have multiple workers.
awk '{sum += $3}; END {print sum1}: add up CPU usage of all processes and print the sum.