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32.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
33.Dt GETRUSAGE 2
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm getrusage
37.Nd get information about resource utilization
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Fd #include <sys/time.h>
40.Fd #include <sys/resource.h>
41.Pp
42.Fd #define RUSAGE_SELF		0
43.Fd #define RUSAGE_CHILDREN	-1
44.Ft int
45.Fn getrusage "int who" "struct rusage *rusage"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Fn getrusage
48returns information describing the resources utilized by the current
49process, or all its terminated child processes.
50The
51.Fa who
52parameter is either
53.Dv RUSAGE_SELF
54or
55.Dv RUSAGE_CHILDREN .
56The buffer to which
57.Fa rusage
58points will be filled in with
59the following structure:
60.Bd -literal
61struct rusage {
62        struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */
63        struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */
64        long ru_maxrss;          /* max resident set size */
65        long ru_ixrss;           /* integral shared text memory size */
66        long ru_idrss;           /* integral unshared data size */
67        long ru_isrss;           /* integral unshared stack size */
68        long ru_minflt;          /* page reclaims */
69        long ru_majflt;          /* page faults */
70        long ru_nswap;           /* swaps */
71        long ru_inblock;         /* block input operations */
72        long ru_oublock;         /* block output operations */
73        long ru_msgsnd;          /* messages sent */
74        long ru_msgrcv;          /* messages received */
75        long ru_nsignals;        /* signals received */
76        long ru_nvcsw;           /* voluntary context switches */
77        long ru_nivcsw;          /* involuntary context switches */
78};
79.Ed
80.Pp
81The fields are interpreted as follows:
82.Bl -tag -width ru_minfltaa
83.It Fa ru_utime
84the total amount of time spent executing in user mode.
85.It Fa ru_stime
86the total amount of time spent in the system executing on behalf
87of the process(es).
88.It Fa ru_maxrss
89the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes).
90.It Fa ru_ixrss
91an \*(lqintegral\*(rq value indicating the amount of memory used
92by the text segment
93that was also shared among other processes.
94This value is expressed in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-execution.
95.It Fa ru_idrss
96an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
97data segment of a process (expressed in units of
98kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
99.It Fa ru_isrss
100an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
101stack segment of a process (expressed in units of
102kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
103.It Fa ru_minflt
104the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here
105I/O activity is avoided by \*(lqreclaiming\*(rq a page frame from
106the list of pages awaiting reallocation.
107.It Fa ru_majflt
108the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity.
109.It Fa ru_nswap
110the number of times a process was \*(lqswapped\*(rq out of main
111memory.
112.It Fa ru_inblock
113the number of times the file system had to perform input.
114.It Fa ru_oublock
115the number of times the file system had to perform output.
116.It Fa ru_msgsnd
117the number of IPC messages sent.
118.It Fa ru_msgrcv
119the number of IPC messages received.
120.It Fa ru_nsignals
121the number of signals delivered.
122.It Fa ru_nvcsw
123the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process
124voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was
125completed (usually to await availability of a resource).
126.It Fa ru_nivcsw
127the number of times a context switch resulted due to a higher
128priority process becoming runnable or because the current process
129exceeded its time slice.
130.El
131.Sh NOTES
132The numbers
133.Fa ru_inblock
134and
135.Fa ru_oublock
136account only for real
137I/O; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only
138to the first process to read or write the data.
139.Sh RETURN VALUES
140Upon success, a value of zero is returned.
141Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
142.Va errno
143is set to indicate the error.
144.Sh ERRORS
145.Fn getrusage
146will fail if:
147.Bl -tag -width Er
148.It Bq Er EINVAL
149The
150.Fa who
151parameter is not a valid value.
152.It Bq Er EFAULT
153The address specified by the
154.Fa rusage
155parameter is not in a valid part of the process address space.
156.El
157.Sh SEE ALSO
158.Xr clock_gettime 2 ,
159.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
160.Xr wait 2
161.Sh HISTORY
162The
163.Fn getrusage
164function call appeared in
165.Bx 4.2 .
166.Sh BUGS
167There is no way to obtain information about a child process
168that has not yet terminated.
169