'\" t .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt, March 28, 1992 .\" and Copyright (c) 2002 Michael Kerrisk .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" .\" 2004-11-16 -- mtk: the getrlimit.2 page, which formerly included .\" coverage of getrusage(2), has been split, so that the latter is .\" now covered in its own getrusage.2. For older details of change .\" history, etc., see getrlimit.2 .\" .\" Modified 2004-11-16, mtk, Noted that the nonconformance .\" when SIGCHLD is being ignored is fixed in Linux 2.6.9. .\" 2008-02-22, Sripathi Kodi : Document RUSAGE_THREAD .\" 2008-05-25, mtk, clarify RUSAGE_CHILDREN + other clean-ups. .\" 2010-05-24, Mark Hills : Description of fields, .\" document ru_maxrss .\" 2010-05-24, mtk, enhanced description of various fields .\" .TH getrusage 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04" .SH NAME getrusage \- get resource usage .SH LIBRARY Standard C library .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .BI "int getrusage(int " who ", struct rusage *" usage ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .BR getrusage () returns resource usage measures for .IR who , which can be one of the following: .TP .B RUSAGE_SELF Return resource usage statistics for the calling process, which is the sum of resources used by all threads in the process. .TP .B RUSAGE_CHILDREN Return resource usage statistics for all children of the calling process that have terminated and been waited for. These statistics will include the resources used by grandchildren, and further removed descendants, if all of the intervening descendants waited on their terminated children. .TP .BR RUSAGE_THREAD " (since Linux 2.6.26)" Return resource usage statistics for the calling thread. The .B _GNU_SOURCE feature test macro must be defined (before including .I any header file) in order to obtain the definition of this constant from .IR . .PP The resource usages are returned in the structure pointed to by .IR usage , which has the following form: .PP .in +4n .EX struct rusage { struct timeval ru_utime; /* user CPU time used */ struct timeval ru_stime; /* system CPU time used */ long ru_maxrss; /* maximum resident set size */ long ru_ixrss; /* integral shared memory size */ long ru_idrss; /* integral unshared data size */ long ru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack size */ long ru_minflt; /* page reclaims (soft page faults) */ long ru_majflt; /* page faults (hard page faults) */ long ru_nswap; /* swaps */ long ru_inblock; /* block input operations */ long ru_oublock; /* block output operations */ long ru_msgsnd; /* IPC messages sent */ long ru_msgrcv; /* IPC messages received */ long ru_nsignals; /* signals received */ long ru_nvcsw; /* voluntary context switches */ long ru_nivcsw; /* involuntary context switches */ }; .EE .in .PP Not all fields are completed; unmaintained fields are set to zero by the kernel. (The unmaintained fields are provided for compatibility with other systems, and because they may one day be supported on Linux.) The fields are interpreted as follows: .TP .I ru_utime This is the total amount of time spent executing in user mode, expressed in a .I timeval structure (seconds plus microseconds). .TP .I ru_stime This is the total amount of time spent executing in kernel mode, expressed in a .I timeval structure (seconds plus microseconds). .TP .IR ru_maxrss " (since Linux 2.6.32)" This is the maximum resident set size used (in kilobytes). For .BR RUSAGE_CHILDREN , this is the resident set size of the largest child, not the maximum resident set size of the process tree. .TP .IR ru_ixrss " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On some systems, .\" this is the integral of the text segment memory consumption, .\" expressed in kilobyte-seconds. .TP .IR ru_idrss " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On some systems, this is the integral of the data segment memory consumption, .\" expressed in kilobyte-seconds. .TP .IR ru_isrss " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On some systems, this is the integral of the stack memory consumption, .\" expressed in kilobyte-seconds. .TP .I 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 .I ru_majflt The number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity. .TP .IR ru_nswap " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On some systems, this is the number of swaps out of physical memory. .TP .IR ru_inblock " (since Linux 2.6.22)" The number of times the filesystem had to perform input. .TP .IR ru_oublock " (since Linux 2.6.22)" The number of times the filesystem had to perform output. .TP .IR ru_msgsnd " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On FreeBSD 6.2, this appears to measure messages sent over sockets .\" On some systems, .\" this field records the number of messages sent over sockets. .TP .IR ru_msgrcv " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On FreeBSD 6.2, this appears to measure messages received over sockets .\" On some systems, .\" this field records the number of messages received over sockets. .TP .IR ru_nsignals " (unmaintained)" This field is currently unused on Linux. .\" On some systems, this field records the number of signals received. .TP .IR ru_nvcsw " (since Linux 2.6)" 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 .IR ru_nivcsw " (since Linux 2.6)" 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 RETURN VALUE On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set to indicate the error. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EFAULT .I usage points outside the accessible address space. .TP .B EINVAL .I who is invalid. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). .ad l .nh .TS allbox; lbx lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .BR getrusage () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .hy .ad .sp 1 .SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. .PP POSIX.1 specifies .BR getrusage (), but specifies only the fields .I ru_utime and .IR ru_stime . .PP .B RUSAGE_THREAD is Linux-specific. .SH HISTORY POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. .PP Before Linux 2.6.9, if the disposition of .B SIGCHLD is set to .B SIG_IGN then the resource usages of child processes are automatically included in the value returned by .BR RUSAGE_CHILDREN , although POSIX.1-2001 explicitly prohibits this. This nonconformance is rectified in Linux 2.6.9 and later. .\" See the description of getrusage() in XSH. .\" A similar statement was also in SUSv2. .PP The structure definition shown at the start of this page was taken from 4.3BSD Reno. .PP Ancient systems provided a .BR vtimes () function with a similar purpose to .BR getrusage (). For backward compatibility, glibc (up until Linux 2.32) also provides .BR vtimes (). All new applications should be written using .BR getrusage (). (Since Linux 2.33, glibc no longer provides an .BR vtimes () implementation.) .SH NOTES Resource usage metrics are preserved across an .BR execve (2). .PP See also the description of .IR /proc/ pid /stat in .BR proc (5). .SH SEE ALSO .BR clock_gettime (2), .BR getrlimit (2), .BR times (2), .BR wait (2), .BR wait4 (2), .BR clock (3)