Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 16:45:38 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 19:33:39, macaroni wrote:
>thanks! could you briefly explain how to use the getrusage() function? thanks
>again
GETRUSAGE(2) System Calls Manual GETRUSAGE(2)
NAME
getrusage - get information about resource utilization
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#define RUSAGE_SELF 0
#define RUSAGE_CHILDREN -1
int
getrusage(int who, struct rusage *rusage);
DESCRIPTION
Getrusage() returns information describing the resources utilized by the
current process, or all its terminated child processes. The who parame-
ter is either RUSAGE_SELF or RUSAGE_CHILDREN. The buffer to which rusage
points will be filled in with the following structure:
struct rusage {
struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */
struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */
long ru_maxrss; /* integral max resident set size */
long ru_ixrss; /* integral shared text memory size */
long ru_idrss; /* integral unshared data size */
long ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */
long ru_minflt; /* page reclaims */
long ru_majflt; /* page faults */
long ru_nswap; /* swaps */
long ru_inblock; /* block input operations */
long ru_oublock; /* block output operations */
long ru_msgsnd; /* messages sent */
long ru_msgrcv; /* messages received */
long ru_nsignals; /* signals received */
long ru_nvcsw; /* voluntary context switches */
long ru_nivcsw; /* involuntary context switches */
};
The fields are interpreted as follows:
ru_utime the total amount of time spent executing in user mode.
ru_stime the total amount of time spent in the system executing on
behalf of the process(es).
ru_maxrss the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes).
ru_ixrss an integral value indicating the amount of memory used by
the text segment that was also shared among other processes.
This value is expressed in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-
execution.
ru_idrss an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing
in the data segment of a process (expressed in units of
kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
ru_isrss an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing
in the stack segment of a process (expressed in units of
kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
ru_minflt the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity;
here I/O activity is avoided by reclaiming a page frame from
the list of pages awaiting reallocation.
ru_majflt the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activ-
ity.
ru_nswap the number of times a process was swapped out of main mem-
ory.
ru_inblock the number of times the file system had to perform input.
ru_oublock the number of times the file system had to perform output.
ru_msgsnd the number of IPC messages sent.
ru_msgrcv the number of IPC messages received.
ru_nsignals the number of signals delivered.
ru_nvcsw the number of times a context switch resulted due to a pro-
cess voluntarily giving up the processor before its time
slice was completed (usually to await availability of a
resource).
ru_nivcsw the number of times a context switch resulted due to a
higher priority process becoming runnable or because the
current process exceeded its time slice.
NOTES
The numbers ru_inblock and ru_oublock account only for real I/O; data
supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only to the first process to
read or write the data.
ERRORS
Getrusage() returns -1 on error. The possible errors are:
[EINVAL] The who parameter is not a valid value.
[EFAULT] The address specified by the rusage parameter is not
in a valid part of the process address space.
SEE ALSO
gettimeofday(2), wait(2)
BUGS
There is no way to obtain information about a child process that has not
yet terminated.
HISTORY
The getrusage() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
4th Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4th Berkeley Distribution
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