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8.15.2 Resource Usage

These functiona are used to retrieve resource usage information:

getrusage(who)

This function returns a large tuple that describes the resources consumed by either the current process or its children, as specified by thewho parameter. Thewho parameter should be specified using one of theRUSAGE_* constants described below.

The elements of the return value each describe how a particular system resource has been used, e.g. amount of time spent running is user mode or number of times the process was swapped out of main memory. Some values are dependent on the clock tick internal, e.g. the amount of memory the process is using.

The first two elements of the return value are floating point values representing the amount of time spent executing in user mode and the amount of time spent executing in system mode, respectively. The remaining values are integers. Consult thegetrusage(2) man page for detailed information about these values. A brief summary is presented here:

Offset	Resource
0	time in user mode (float)
1	time in system mode (float)
2	maximum resident set size
3	shared memory size
4	unshared memory size
5	unshared stack size
6	page faults not requiring I/O
7	page faults requiring I/O
8	number of swap outs
9	block input operations
10	block output operations
11	messages sent
12	messages received
13	signals received
14	voluntary context switches
15	involuntary context switches

This function will raise aValueError if an invalidwho parameter is specified. It may also raiseerror exception in unusual circumstances.

getpagesize()

Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the hardware page size.) This function is useful for determining the number of bytes of memory a process is using. The third element of the tuple returned bygetrusage() describes memory usage in pages; multiplying by page size produces number of bytes.

The followingRUSAGE_* symbols are passed to thegetrusage() function to specify which processes informationshould be provided for.

RUSAGE_SELF

RUSAGE_SELF should be used to request information pertaining only to the process itself.

RUSAGE_CHILDREN

Pass togetrusage() to request resource information for child processes of the calling process.

RUSAGE_BOTH

Pass togetrusage() to request resources consumed by both the current process and child processes. May not be available on all systems.

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Release 2.2.3, documentation updated on 30 May 2003.