On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:52:06AM -0700, bruce wrote: > i have a test python script running... > can someone tell me how i can see the resource usage.. > i did a "top" but i don't see the app.. > i started the app --> ./test.py You could try this: time ./test.py and that'll tell you the total CPU time used by the program when it completes. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>