.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" .\" @(#)getrusage.2 6.6 (Berkeley) %G% .\" .TH GETRUSAGE 2 "" .UC 4 .SH NAME getrusage \- get information about resource utilization .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .ft B #include #include .PP .ft B .ta \w'#define 'u +\w'RUSAGE_CHILDREN 'u +\w'-1 'u #define RUSAGE_SELF 0 /* calling process */ #define RUSAGE_CHILDREN -1 /* terminated child processes */ .DT .PP .ft B getrusage(who, rusage) int who; struct rusage *rusage; .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .I Getrusage returns information describing the resources utilized by the current process, or all its terminated child processes. The .I who parameter is one of RUSAGE_SELF or RUSAGE_CHILDREN. The buffer to which .I rusage points will be filled in with the following structure: .PP .nf .RS .ta \w'struct 'u +\w'struct 'u +3u*\w'struct 'u struct rusage { struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */ struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */ int ru_maxrss; int ru_ixrss; /* integral shared text memory size */ int ru_idrss; /* integral unshared data size */ int ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */ int ru_minflt; /* page reclaims */ int ru_majflt; /* page faults */ int ru_nswap; /* swaps */ int ru_inblock; /* block input operations */ int ru_oublock; /* block output operations */ int ru_msgsnd; /* messages sent */ int ru_msgrcv; /* messages received */ int ru_nsignals; /* signals received */ int ru_nvcsw; /* voluntary context switches */ int ru_nivcsw; /* involuntary context switches */ }; .RE .DT .fi .PP The fields are interpreted as follows: .TP 15 ru_utime the total amount of time spent executing in user mode. .TP 15 ru_stime the total amount of time spent in the system executing on behalf of the process(es). .TP 15 ru_maxrss the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes). .TP 15 ru_ixrss an \*(lqintegral\*(rq 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. .TP 15 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). .TP 15 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). .TP 15 ru_minflt the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here I/O activity is avoided by \*(lqreclaiming\*(rq a page frame from the list of pages awaiting reallocation. .TP 15 ru_majflt the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity. .TP 15 ru_nswap the number of times a process was \*(lqswapped\*(rq out of main memory. .TP 15 ru_inblock the number of times the file system had to perform input. .TP 15 ru_oublock the number of times the file system had to perform output. .TP 15 ru_msgsnd the number of IPC messages sent. .TP 15 ru_msgrcv the number of IPC messages received. .TP 15 ru_nsignals the number of signals delivered. .TP 15 ru_nvcsw the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was completed (usually to await availability of a resource). .TP 15 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. .SH NOTES The numbers .I ru_inblock and .I 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. .SH ERRORS The possible errors for .I getrusage are: .TP 15 [EINVAL] The .I who parameter is not a valid value. .TP 15 [EFAULT] The address specified by the .I rusage parameter is not in a valid part of the process address space. .SH SEE ALSO gettimeofday(2), wait(2) .SH BUGS There is no way to obtain information about a child process that has not yet terminated.