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Operating Systems HP-UX getrusage() Post 302122772 by limame on Thursday 21st of June 2007 10:04:04 AM
Old 06-21-2007
Thank you
I tested this code but I can't understand why the user time and the system time are the same before and after execution.

-------------before
/* user time used */ 0 10000
/* system time used */ 0 10000
/* integral shared memory size */ 0
/* integral unshared data */ 0
/* integral unshared stack */ 0
/* page reclaims */ 149
/* page faults */ 1
/* swaps */ 0
/* block input operations */ 0
/* block output operations */ 0
/* # of characters read/written */ 1676
/* messages sent */ 0
/* messages received */ 0
/* signals received */ 0
/* voluntary context switches */ 1
/* involuntary */ 14


-------------after we run foo1
/* user time used */ 0 10000
/* system time used */ 0 10000
/* integral shared memory size */ 0
/* integral unshared data */ 0
/* integral unshared stack */ 0
/* page reclaims */ 149
/* page faults */ 2
/* swaps */ 0
/* block input operations */ 0
/* block output operations */ 0
/* # of characters read/written */ 2500
/* messages sent */ 0
/* messages received */ 0
/* signals received */ 0
/* voluntary context switches */ 2
/* involuntary */ 14

Normally I must calculate the difference between the two statistics to obtain statistics of my program execution. So I will obtain 0 for the user time and system time ???
 

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GETRUSAGE(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      GETRUSAGE(2)

NAME
getrusage - get resource usage SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> int getrusage(int who, struct rusage *usage); DESCRIPTION
getrusage() returns resource usage measures for who, which can be one of the following: RUSAGE_SELF Return resource usage statistics for the calling process, which is the sum of resources used by all threads in the process. 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. RUSAGE_THREAD (since Linux 2.6.26) Return resource usage statistics for the calling thread. The resource usages are returned in the structure pointed to by usage, which has the following form: 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 */ }; 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: ru_utime This is the total amount of time spent executing in user mode, expressed in a timeval structure (seconds plus microseconds). ru_stime This is the total amount of time spent executing in kernel mode, expressed in a timeval structure (seconds plus microseconds). ru_maxrss (since Linux 2.6.32) This is the maximum resident set size used (in kilobytes). For RUSAGE_CHILDREN, this is the resident set size of the largest child, not the maximum resident set size of the process tree. ru_ixrss (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_idrss (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_isrss (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_minflt The number of page faults serviced without any I/O activity; here I/O activity is avoided by "reclaiming" a page frame from the list of pages awaiting reallocation. ru_majflt The number of page faults serviced that required I/O activity. ru_nswap (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_inblock (since Linux 2.6.22) The number of times the file system had to perform input. ru_oublock (since Linux 2.6.22) The number of times the file system had to perform output. ru_msgsnd (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_msgrcv (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. ru_nsignals (unmaintained) This field is currently unused on Linux. 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 com- pleted (usually to await availability of a resource). 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. RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
EFAULT usage points outside the accessible address space. EINVAL who is invalid. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD. POSIX.1-2001 specifies getrusage(), but only specifies the fields ru_utime and ru_stime. RUSAGE_THREAD is Linux-specific. NOTES
Resource usage metrics are preserved across an execve(2). Including <sys/time.h> is not required these days, but increases portability. (Indeed, struct timeval is defined in <sys/time.h>.) In Linux kernel versions before 2.6.9, if the disposition of SIGCHLD is set to SIG_IGN then the resource usages of child processes are automatically included in the value returned by RUSAGE_CHILDREN, although POSIX.1-2001 explicitly prohibits this. This nonconformance is rectified in Linux 2.6.9 and later. The structure definition shown at the start of this page was taken from 4.3BSD Reno. See also the description of /proc/PID/stat in proc(5). SEE ALSO
clock_gettime(2), getrlimit(2), times(2), wait(2), wait4(2), clock(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2010-06-14 GETRUSAGE(2)
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