Tips and Tricks for Settings and Configurations

Tips and tricks to maintain a development working environment for research.

MacOS

  • After upgrade or reinstall the MacOS, rerun following commands to install the command tools for xcode and others.
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$ xcode-select --install
  • Check port 3413 is used by which application
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$ lsof -nP -i4TCP:3413 | grep LISTEN

ubuntu

  • Find the current working directory of a process with a PID, say 1234
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$ pwdx 1234
/home/lyx/simulation/pujiang/ab3_a/f0.4/xN20

$ lsof -p 1234 | grep cwd
/home/lyx/simulation/pujiang/ab3_a/f0.4/xN20
  • Find processes using a name
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$ ps -ef | grep lyx
  • Count the lines of a input source
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$ ps -ef | grep lyx | wc -l
Number of processes has keyword lyx (which happened to be my user name on the server)
  • NVidia GPU stats
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$ nvidia-smi
A brief summary of all Nvidia devices

$ nvidia-smi -L
GPU 0: <information about gpu 0>
GPU 1: <information about gpu 1>
GPU 2: <information about gpu 2>
GPU 3: <information about gpu 3>

$ nvidia-smi stats -d gpuUtil
display the gpu usage (similar to CPU usage, in percentage) repeatedly for every device.