Quickstart¶
Storing resource usage¶
Especially when constrained by available computing resources it is good to keep an eye on the resource usage of your analysis/application. For this purpose we provide the sv_execute command which encapsulates the script/executable and periodically checks the memory usage as well as reports the time taken at the end.
The following will execute stress --cpu 1 --io 1 --vm 1 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s --verbose and output the resource usage into the resource_metrics.json file.
sv_execute -m resource_metrics.json \ -- \ stress --cpu 1 --io 1 --vm 1 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s --verbose
In the first part, sv_execute -m resource_metrics.json, we set the parameters for sv_execute. -- marks the end of sv_execute parameters, everthing after that is considered as the command (and parameters) to be executed.
The standard output of the called command is uneffected:
... stress: dbug: [1844521] allocating 134217728 bytes ... stress: dbug: [1844521] touching bytes in strides of 4096 bytes ... ... >>> Ran command: "stress --cpu 1 --io 1 --vm 1 --vm-bytes 128M --timeout 10s --verbose" >>> in 11.424817s and used 93.3 MB of memory.