ComputingUserJobProfiling < Main

---+ Application profiling

For now this only works on T3-higgs, where we have interactive access.

---++ Running your job in background, fetch PID

Please make sure that you either start your job in background :

<verbatim>
$my-usual-script.sh &

Example :

[root@t3-higgs ~]# sleep 60 &
[2] 27309
[1]   Done                    sleep 60

PID is 27309
</verbatim>

Or
<verbatim>
$my-usual-script.sh # Press ctrl+z
$bg

Example :

[root@t3-higgs ~]# sleep 60

[1]+  Stopped                 sleep 60
[root@t3-higgs ~]# bg
[1]+ sleep 60 &
[root@t3-higgs ~]# ps aux | grep sleep
root     27204  0.0  0.0  58920   528 pts/7    S    11:45   0:00 sleep 60
root     27206  0.0  0.0  61168   712 pts/7    S+   11:45   0:00 grep sleep

# PID is 27204
</verbatim>

On the next step, we will need the PID of your job's process. So make sure you get it here.

---++ Running the profile script :

With the PID in hands, run the script already in the system's $PATH , passing as first argument the PID of your job :

<verbatim>
[root@t3-higgs ~]# mem-profile.sh 27342
</verbatim>

You don't need to do anything else as this small script already puts itself in background. It will terminate itself once your job stops (PID is no more).

---++ Looking at memory profile

The script will create a log file that is updated live as it runs, so you can do anything with it at the end, or watch it live as it runs : 

<verbatim>
[root@t3-higgs ~]# tail -n200 /tmp/profile-root-27342.log -f
Started at : Mon Dec  1 11:47:48 PST 2014
Printing RSS at the interval of 3 seconds
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
528
Finished at : Mon Dec  1 11:48:43 PST 2014
</verbatim>

Note that the filename format is /tmp/profile-$USER-$PID.log

For the curious, the output is pretty much the 6th column of the "ps aux" command :

<verbatim>
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  10372   668 ?        Ss   Nov21   0:01 init [3] 
</verbatim>

-- Main.samir - 2014-12-01

This topic: Main > ComputingUserJobProfiling
Topic revision: r1 - 2014-12-01 - samir

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