start_perftrack: start_perftrack

In lbusett/memtrack: Allows monitoring memory allocation, CPU percentage and disk I/O of R code

Description

starts collection of information about memory, disk and CPU usage of rsession and other processes

Usage

start_perftrack(timestep = 1, trackmem = TRUE, trackCPU = TRUE,
  trackdisk = TRUE, gc_onstart = TRUE, add_processes = "",
  outfile = tempfile(fileext = ".txt"))

Arguments

timestep	integer, timestep used for recording performance, Default: 1
trackmem	logical, If TRUE, monitor memory usage, Default: TRUE
trackCPU	logical, If TRUE, monitor CPU usage, Default: TRUE
trackdisk	logical, If TRUE, monitor disk usage, Default: TRUE
add_processes	character array containg the names of other processes to be monitored, Default: NULL
outfile	character, Full path of a file used to store the csv file used to store performance data. Defaults to a temporary file: tempfile(fileext = ".txt")

Details

On Windows, the function calls typeperf. On Linux, it calls ???

Value

The function is called for its side effects. It starts monitoring performances and strore useful information in baseenv.

Author(s)

Lorenzo Busetto, phD (2018) [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
if(interactive()){
 #EXAMPLE1
 }

## End(Not run)

lbusett/memtrack documentation built on May 28, 2019, 12:02 p.m.