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36.Dd June 4, 1993
37.Dt GETRUSAGE 2
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm getrusage
41.Nd get information about resource utilization
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/resource.h\*[Gt]
46.Fd #define	RUSAGE_SELF	 0
47.Fd #define	RUSAGE_CHILDREN	-1
48.Ft int
49.Fn getrusage "int who" "struct rusage *rusage"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51.Fn getrusage
52returns information describing the resources utilized by the current
53process, or all its terminated child processes.
54The
55.Fa who
56parameter is either
57.Dv RUSAGE_SELF
58or
59.Dv RUSAGE_CHILDREN .
60The buffer to which
61.Fa rusage
62points will be filled in with
63the following structure:
64.Bd -literal
65struct rusage {
66        struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */
67        struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */
68        long ru_maxrss;          /* max resident set size */
69        long ru_ixrss;           /* integral shared text memory size */
70        long ru_idrss;           /* integral unshared data size */
71        long ru_isrss;           /* integral unshared stack size */
72        long ru_minflt;          /* page reclaims */
73        long ru_majflt;          /* page faults */
74        long ru_nswap;           /* swaps */
75        long ru_inblock;         /* block input operations */
76        long ru_oublock;         /* block output operations */
77        long ru_msgsnd;          /* messages sent */
78        long ru_msgrcv;          /* messages received */
79        long ru_nsignals;        /* signals received */
80        long ru_nvcsw;           /* voluntary context switches */
81        long ru_nivcsw;          /* involuntary context switches */
82};
83.Ed
84.Pp
85The fields are interpreted as follows:
86.Bl -tag -width ru_minfltaa
87.It Fa ru_utime
88the total amount of time spent executing in user mode.
89.It Fa ru_stime
90the total amount of time spent in the system executing on behalf
91of the process(es).
92.It Fa ru_maxrss
93the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes).
94.It Fa ru_ixrss
95an \*(lqintegral\*(rq value indicating the amount of memory used
96by the text segment
97that was also shared among other processes.  This value is expressed
98in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-execution.
99.It Fa ru_idrss
100an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
101data segment of a process (expressed in units of
102kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
103.It Fa ru_isrss
104an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
105stack segment of a process (expressed in units of
106kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
107.It Fa ru_minflt
108the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here
109I/O activity is avoided by \*(lqreclaiming\*(rq a 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 \*(lqswapped\*(rq out of main
115memory.
116.It Fa ru_inblock
117the number of times the file system had to perform input.
118.It Fa ru_oublock
119the number of times the file system had to perform output.
120.It Fa ru_msgsnd
121the number of IPC messages sent.
122.It Fa ru_msgrcv
123the number of IPC messages received.
124.It Fa ru_nsignals
125the number of signals delivered.
126.It Fa ru_nvcsw
127the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process
128voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was
129completed (usually to await availability of a resource).
130.It Fa ru_nivcsw
131the number of times a context switch resulted due to a higher
132priority process becoming runnable or because the current process
133exceeded its time slice.
134.El
135.Sh NOTES
136The numbers
137.Fa ru_inblock
138and
139.Fa ru_oublock
140account only for real
141I/O; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only
142to the first process to read or write the data.
143.Sh ERRORS
144.Fn getrusage
145returns -1 on error.
146The possible errors are:
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 gettimeofday 2 ,
159.Xr wait 2
160.Sh HISTORY
161The
162.Fn getrusage
163function call appeared in
164.Bx 4.2 .
165.Sh BUGS
166There is no way to obtain information about a child process
167that has not yet terminated.
168