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NAME
vtimes - get information about resource utilization
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/vtimes.h>
vtimes(parvm, chvm)
struct vtimes *parvm, *chvm;
DESCRIPTION
This facility is superseded by getrusage(2).
vtimes returns accounting information for the current pro-
cess and for the terminated child processes of the current
process. Either par_vm or ch_vm 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
/usr/include/sys/vtimes.h:
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 vm_utime and vm_stime 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
vm_idrss and vm_ixrss measure memory usage. They are com-
puted by integrating the number of memory pages in use each
over cpu 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
vm_idsrss would have the value 5*60, where vm_utime+vm_stime
would be the 60. vm_idsrss integrates data and stack segment
usage, while vm_ixrss integrates text segment usage.
vm_maxrss reports the maximum instantaneous sum of the
text+data+stack core-resident page count.
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The vm_majflt field gives the number of page faults which
resulted in disk activity; the vm_minflt field gives the
number of page faults incurred in simulation of reference
bits; vm_nswap is the number of swaps which occurred. The
number of file system input/output events are reported in
vm_inblk and vm_oublk. These numbers account only for real
i/o; data supplied by the caching mechanism is charged only
to the first process to read or write the data.
SEE ALSO
getrusage(2), time(2), wait(2).
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