Retrieve CPU usage and memory usage of a single process on Linux?

by 
ps -p <pid> -o %cpu,%mem,cmd

(You can leave off “cmd” but that might be helpful in debugging).

Note that this gives average CPU usage of the process over the time it has been running.

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