[3] I didn't instrument the build process; as can be seen in the scripts, I just relied on: ps --sort=-vsz p $pids | head 1 $pids include the emacs session in which I was running make; this session was masking basically everything other than the ELC+ELN processes. Also, the sampling step being 30 seconds, a lot of interesting patterns may not have been recorded. Overall these scripts are an exercise in How Not To Collect Data 😒.