psrecord
last updated: Feb 13, 2024
https://github.com/astrofrog/psrecord
A simple tool that automates measuring the memory and CPU usage of a process.
I wrote a bit about how to do this using a bash script and ps a long time ago, but psrecord wraps it up into a useful package.
To measure the performance of make webpack on a project I'm working on, I:
- installed it with
pip install psrecord - Ran
psrecord "make webpack" --log record.log --plot plot.png --include-children
And got out both a log file and this useful chart:
