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/* user time used */ 68 struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */ 69 long ru_maxrss; /* max resident set size */ 70 long ru_ixrss; /* integral shared text memory size */ 71 long ru_idrss; /* integral unshared data size */ 72 long ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */ 73 long ru_minflt; /* page reclaims */ 74 long ru_majflt; /* page faults */ 75 long ru_nswap; /* swaps */ 76 long ru_inblock; /* block input operations */ 77 long ru_oublock; /* block output operations */ 78 long ru_msgsnd; /* messages sent */ 79 long ru_msgrcv; /* messages received */ 80 long ru_nsignals; /* signals received */ 81 long ru_nvcsw; /* voluntary context switches */ 82 long ru_nivcsw; /* involuntary context switches */ 83}; 84.Ed 85.Pp 86The fields are interpreted as follows: 87.Bl -tag -width ru_minfltaa 88.It Fa ru_utime 89the total amount of time spent executing in user mode. 90.It Fa ru_stime 91the total amount of time spent in the system executing on behalf 92of the process(es). 93.It Fa ru_maxrss 94the maximum resident set size utilized (in kilobytes). 95.It Fa ru_ixrss 96an 97.Dq integral 98value indicating the amount of memory used 99by the text segment 100that was also shared among other processes. 101This value is expressed 102in units of kilobytes * ticks-of-execution. 103Ticks are statistics clock ticks. 104The statistics clock has a frequency of 105.Fn sysconf _SC_CLK_TCK 106ticks per second. 107.It Fa ru_idrss 108an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the 109data segment of a process (expressed in units of 110kilobytes * ticks-of-execution). 111.It Fa ru_isrss 112an integral value of the amount of unshared memory residing in the 113stack segment of a process (expressed in units of 114kilobytes * ticks-of-execution). 115.It Fa ru_minflt 116the number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here 117I/O activity is avoided by 118.Dq reclaiming 119a page frame from 120the list of pages awaiting reallocation. 121.It Fa ru_majflt 122the number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity. 123.It Fa ru_nswap 124the number of times a process was 125.Dq swapped 126out of main 127memory. 128.It Fa ru_inblock 129the number of times the file system had to perform input. 130.It Fa ru_oublock 131the number of times the file system had to perform output. 132.It Fa ru_msgsnd 133the number of IPC messages sent. 134.It Fa ru_msgrcv 135the number of IPC messages received. 136.It Fa ru_nsignals 137the number of signals delivered. 138.It Fa ru_nvcsw 139the number of times a context switch resulted due to a process 140voluntarily giving up the processor before its time slice was 141completed (usually to await availability of a resource). 142.It Fa ru_nivcsw 143the number of times a context switch resulted due to a higher 144priority process becoming runnable or because the current process 145exceeded its time slice. 146.El 147.Sh NOTES 148The numbers 149.Fa ru_inblock 150and 151.Fa ru_oublock 152account only for real 153I/O; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only 154to the first process to read or write the data. 155.Sh RETURN VALUES 156.Rv -std getrusage 157.Sh ERRORS 158The 159.Fn getrusage 160system call will fail if: 161.Bl -tag -width Er 162.It Bq Er EINVAL 163The 164.Fa who 165argument is not a valid value. 166.It Bq Er EFAULT 167The address specified by the 168.Fa rusage 169argument is not in a valid part of the process address space. 170.El 171.Sh SEE ALSO 172.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 173.Xr wait 2 , 174.Xr clocks 7 175.Sh HISTORY 176The 177.Fn getrusage 178system call appeared in 179.Bx 4.2 . 180The 181.Dv RUSAGE_THREAD 182facility first appeared in 183.Fx 8.1 . 184.Sh BUGS 185There is no way to obtain information about a child process 186that has not yet terminated. 187