Maintainer PSA: memory usage profiling

[port19x]

Just found out that the standalone time (you need to install it from the repos) has a -v option showing, among other things, the Maximum Resident Size which is equivalent to the maximum memory usage.

Source

sudo pacman -Syu time

[port19x]

Example output from ani-cli 4.2.0
/usr/bin/time -v ani-cli flcl

Command being timed: "ani-cli flcl"
User time (seconds): 1.27
System time (seconds): 0.32
Percent of CPU this job got: 11%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:14.26
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 261784
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 11
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 63571
Voluntary context switches: 2920
Involuntary context switches: 214
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 176
File system outputs: 40
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0

[port19x]

apparently in debug mode it only uses 11 megs