VTIMES(3)

NAME
vtimes - get information about resource utilization

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/vtimes.h>
vtimes(struct vtimes *par_vm, struct vtimes *ch_vm);

DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by getrusage(2). It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.

The vtimes() function returns accounting information for the current process 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 ~ <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 computed 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. The vm_idsrss argument integrates data and stack segment usage, while vm_ixrss integrates text segment usage. The vm_maxrss function reports the maximum instantaneous sum of the text+data+stack core-resident page count.

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
wait3(2), getrusage(2), time(3).

HISTORY
The vtimes() function appeared in 4.2BSD.