Hi, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Matthew Keller <mckellerc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Perhaps this is more of a unix question, but I'll give it a try here. > I am running 9 different R processes at the same time (called from a > shell script using R CMD BATCH). When I use the top program to > monitor how they are doing, it is impossible to tell which R process > is related to which R script. Is there a way to rename a specific > instantiation of an R process in top with another, more informative > name, e.g., something like R-script1 R-script2 etc?
How about flipping it around and asking your scripts to let you know what process they are (so you can ID in `top` by their process id, and not process name/command). R> Sys.getpid() [1] 27813 Maybe you can have your scripts `cat` that value to stdout when they run? -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
