How to check amount of resources used by process ?

From: Jarek (jarek_at_poczta.srv.pl)
Date: 05/30/05 

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:08:28 +0200

Hello!

        I'd like to check how much resources (CPU, MEM etc) is used by some
process. The problem is that the process is started from other process,
and it works very short time (less than 1s).

best regards
Jarek