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This interface is obsoleted by It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat. The function returns accounting information for the current process and for the terminated child processes of the current process. Either or or both may be 0, in which case only the information for the pointers which are non-zero is returned. After the call, each buffer contains information as defined by the contents of the include file struct vtimes {    int    vm_utime;    /* user time (*HZ) */
   int    vm_stime;    /* system time (*HZ) */
   /* divide next two by utime+stime to get averages */
   unsigned vm_idsrss;    /* integral of d+s rss */
   unsigned vm_ixrss;    /* integral of text rss */
   int    vm_maxrss;    /* maximum rss */
   int    vm_majflt;    /* major page faults */
   int    vm_minflt;    /* minor page faults */
   int    vm_nswap;    /* number of swaps */
   int    vm_inblk;    /* block reads */
   int    vm_oublk;    /* block writes */
}; The and fields give the user and system time respectively in 60ths of a second (or 50ths if that is the frequency of wall current in your locality.) The and measure memory usage. They are computed by integrating the number of memory pages in use each over time. They are reported as though computed discretely, adding the current memory usage (in 512 byte pages) each time the clock ticks. If a process used 5 core pages over 1 cpu-second for its data and stack, then would have the value 5*60, where would be the 60. The argument integrates data and stack segment usage, while integrates text segment usage. The function reports the maximum instantaneous sum of the text+data+stack core-resident page count. The field gives the number of page faults which resulted in disk activity; the field gives the number of page faults incurred in simulation of reference bits; is the number of swaps which occurred. The number of file system input/output events are reported in and These numbers account only for real data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only to the first process to read or write the data.

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HISTORY

The function appeared in


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