tacco.benchmarking.benchmark_shell

benchmark_shell(command, command_args=[], working_directory=None, verbose=0)[source]

Benchmarks time and memory consumption of a shell command.

Parameters:

  • command – A string specifying the command line command to be measured.

  • command_args – A list of strings specifying the command line arguments to supply.

  • working_directory – The directory where to execute the command. If None, a temporary directory is used and cleaned in the end.

  • verbose – Whether to print stderr and stdout of the command run.

Returns:

Returns a dict containing the runtime in seconds under the key “shell_time_s” and the memory usage under “max_mem_usage_GB”.