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32.Dd $Mdocdate: February 28 2015 $
33.Dt GETRUSAGE 2
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm getrusage
37.Nd get information about resource utilization
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In sys/resource.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn getrusage "int who" "struct rusage *rusage"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43.Fn getrusage
44returns resource usage information for argument
45.Fa who ,
46which can be one of the following:
47.Bl -tag -width RUSAGE_CHILDREN -offset indent
48.It Dv RUSAGE_SELF
49Resources used by the current process.
50.It Dv RUSAGE_CHILDREN
51Resources used by all the terminated children of the current process.
52.It Dv RUSAGE_THREAD
53Resources used by the current thread.
54.El
55.Pp
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
92.Dq integral
93value indicating the amount of memory used
94by the text segment
95that was also shared among other processes.
96This value is expressed in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-execution.
97.It Fa ru_idrss
98an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
99data segment of a process (expressed in units of
100kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
101.It Fa ru_isrss
102an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
103stack segment of a process (expressed in units of
104kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
105.It Fa ru_minflt
106the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here
107I/O activity is avoided by
108.Dq reclaiming
109a page frame from
110the list of pages awaiting reallocation.
111.It Fa ru_majflt
112the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity.
113.It Fa ru_nswap
114the number of times a process was
115.Dq swapped
116out of main memory.
117.It Fa ru_inblock
118the number of times the file system had to perform input.
119.It Fa ru_oublock
120the number of times the file system had to perform output.
121.It Fa ru_msgsnd
122the number of IPC messages sent.
123.It Fa ru_msgrcv
124the number of IPC messages received.
125.It Fa ru_nsignals
126the number of signals delivered.
127.It Fa ru_nvcsw
128the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process
129voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was
130completed (usually to await availability of a resource).
131.It Fa ru_nivcsw
132the number of times a context switch resulted due to a higher
133priority process becoming runnable or because the current process
134exceeded its time slice.
135.El
136.Sh NOTES
137The numbers
138.Fa ru_inblock
139and
140.Fa ru_oublock
141account only for real
142I/O; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only
143to the first process to read or write the data.
144.Sh RETURN VALUES
145.Rv -std
146.Sh ERRORS
147.Fn getrusage
148will fail if:
149.Bl -tag -width Er
150.It Bq Er EINVAL
151The
152.Fa who
153parameter is not a valid value.
154.It Bq Er EFAULT
155The address specified by the
156.Fa rusage
157parameter is not in a valid part of the process address space.
158.El
159.Sh SEE ALSO
160.Xr clock_gettime 2 ,
161.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
162.Xr wait 2
163.Sh STANDARDS
164The
165.Fn getrusage
166function conforms to
167.St -p1003.1-2008 .
168.Pp
169The
170.Dv RUSAGE_THREAD
171flag is an extension to that specification.
172.Sh HISTORY
173A predecessor to
174.Fn getrusage ,
175.Fn times ,
176first appeared in
177.At v3 .
178The
179.Fn getrusage
180system call first appeared in
181.Bx 4.1c .
182.Pp
183The
184.Dv RUSAGE_THREAD
185flag has been available since
186.Ox 4.8 .
187.Sh BUGS
188There is no way to obtain information about a child process
189that has not yet terminated.
190