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32.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $
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/resource.h>
40.Pp
41.Fd #define RUSAGE_SELF		0
42.Fd #define RUSAGE_CHILDREN	(-1)
43.Ft int
44.Fn getrusage "int who" "struct rusage *rusage"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46.Fn getrusage
47returns information describing the resources utilized by the current
48process, or all its terminated child processes.
49The
50.Fa who
51parameter is either
52.Dv RUSAGE_SELF
53or
54.Dv RUSAGE_CHILDREN .
55The buffer to which
56.Fa rusage
57points will be filled in with
58the following structure:
59.Bd -literal
60struct rusage {
61        struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */
62        struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */
63        long ru_maxrss;          /* max resident set size */
64        long ru_ixrss;           /* integral shared text memory size */
65        long ru_idrss;           /* integral unshared data size */
66        long ru_isrss;           /* integral unshared stack size */
67        long ru_minflt;          /* page reclaims */
68        long ru_majflt;          /* page faults */
69        long ru_nswap;           /* swaps */
70        long ru_inblock;         /* block input operations */
71        long ru_oublock;         /* block output operations */
72        long ru_msgsnd;          /* messages sent */
73        long ru_msgrcv;          /* messages received */
74        long ru_nsignals;        /* signals received */
75        long ru_nvcsw;           /* voluntary context switches */
76        long ru_nivcsw;          /* involuntary context switches */
77};
78.Ed
79.Pp
80The fields are interpreted as follows:
81.Bl -tag -width ru_minfltaa
82.It Fa ru_utime
83the total amount of time spent executing in user mode.
84.It Fa ru_stime
85the total amount of time spent in the system executing on behalf
86of the process(es).
87.It Fa ru_maxrss
88the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes).
89.It Fa ru_ixrss
90an \*(lqintegral\*(rq value indicating the amount of memory used
91by the text segment
92that was also shared among other processes.
93This value is expressed in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-execution.
94.It Fa ru_idrss
95an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
96data segment of a process (expressed in units of
97kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
98.It Fa ru_isrss
99an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the
100stack segment of a process (expressed in units of
101kilobytes * ticks-of-execution).
102.It Fa ru_minflt
103the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here
104I/O activity is avoided by \*(lqreclaiming\*(rq a page frame from
105the list of pages awaiting reallocation.
106.It Fa ru_majflt
107the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity.
108.It Fa ru_nswap
109the number of times a process was \*(lqswapped\*(rq out of main
110memory.
111.It Fa ru_inblock
112the number of times the file system had to perform input.
113.It Fa ru_oublock
114the number of times the file system had to perform output.
115.It Fa ru_msgsnd
116the number of IPC messages sent.
117.It Fa ru_msgrcv
118the number of IPC messages received.
119.It Fa ru_nsignals
120the number of signals delivered.
121.It Fa ru_nvcsw
122the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process
123voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was
124completed (usually to await availability of a resource).
125.It Fa ru_nivcsw
126the number of times a context switch resulted due to a higher
127priority process becoming runnable or because the current process
128exceeded its time slice.
129.El
130.Sh NOTES
131The numbers
132.Fa ru_inblock
133and
134.Fa ru_oublock
135account only for real
136I/O; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only
137to the first process to read or write the data.
138.Sh RETURN VALUES
139Upon success, a value of zero is returned.
140Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
141.Va errno
142is set to indicate the error.
143.Sh ERRORS
144.Fn getrusage
145will fail if:
146.Bl -tag -width Er
147.It Bq Er EINVAL
148The
149.Fa who
150parameter is not a valid value.
151.It Bq Er EFAULT
152The address specified by the
153.Fa rusage
154parameter is not in a valid part of the process address space.
155.El
156.Sh SEE ALSO
157.Xr clock_gettime 2 ,
158.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
159.Xr wait 2
160.Sh STANDARDS
161The
162.Fn getrusage
163function conforms to
164.St -p1003.1-2008 .
165.Sh HISTORY
166A predecessor to
167.Fn getrusage ,
168.Fn times ,
169first appeared in
170.At v3 .
171The
172.Fn getrusage
173system call first appeared in
174.Bx 4.1c .
175.Sh BUGS
176There is no way to obtain information about a child process
177that has not yet terminated.
178