I want to figure out how much memory a specific command uses but I'm not sure how to check for the peak memory of the command. Is there anything like the time([command]) usage but for memory?
Basically, I'm going to have to run an interactive queue using SLURM, then test a command for a program I need to use for a single sample, see how much memory was used, then submit a bunch of jobs using that info.
Yes, time is the program that monitors programs and shows the Maximum resident set size. Not to be confused with time Bash builtin that only shows real/user/sys times. On my Arch Linux you have to install time with pacman -S time, it's a separate package.
$ command time -v echo 1 1 Command being timed: "echo 1" User time (seconds): 0.00 System time (seconds): 0.00 Percent of CPU this job got: 0% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.00 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): 1968 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 90 Voluntary context switches: 1 Involuntary context switches: 1 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 Note:
$ type time time is a shell keyword $ time -V bash: -V: command not found real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s $ command time -V time (GNU Time) 1.9 $ /bin/time -V time (GNU Time) 1.9 $ /usr/bin/time -V time (GNU Time) 1.9 
time([command])that's odd syntax, it's nevertime(), after time there's a spacetime command.