README.md

py_process_graph

A simple script to create a graph of Linux processes. This works by parsing the /proc filesystem to get pairs of child and parent processes. These are then fed into the NetworkX graph library and rendered using matplotlib.

Example

How to Get Started!

1. Open your terminal

2. Clone the project on your machine.

git clone https://github.com/smithandrewl/py_process_graph.git

3. Go to your project directory

cd py_process_graph

4. Make sure you have all the dependencies installed.

• To install networkx library

    pip install networkx
  

• To install matplotlib library

    pip install matplotlib
  

5. Now execute the code

python process_graph.py

6. checkout the process_graph_<timestamp>.png file in your project directory for output