processes memory consumption

[Phil Meyer]

Manal Helal wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to get the memory consumption of several processes created
> by mpirun. The time command reports the overall time consumption, and
> using the %M it returns always zeros for memory, only time values are
> reasonable, same to getrusage function, I always get zeros in all
> fields, and the time fields as well using the RUSAGE_SELF parameter,
>
> I tried the graphical process manager like KSysGuard, the problem is
> catching the memory values for process that end too fast, or for
> waiting for long processes, same about top command, they need
> continuous and fast accurate monitoring, won't work by the eye,
>
> Can I have some suggestions for commands or utilities that I can use
> to monitor the processes maximum memory (Physical and Virtual)
> consumption after it finishes,
>
> I appreciate your help a lot,
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Manal
>
>   

Yes.

# yum install psacct

# accton /var/account/pacct

Run your applications.

Play with the application accounting tools.

You might like:

$ sa -jku

Good luck!