> > Ah, you talked about /usr/bin/time? sorry, I misunderstood a bit. > > Why time need number of pages? > > > > In general, getrusage()::ru_maxrss is bsd compatibility feature. > > as far as possible, the same syscall spec is better. > > and bsd use KB unit. > Oh you are right. Now I searched it in FreeBSD kernel. They goes like this: > rss = pgtok(vmspace_resident_count(vm)); > if (ru->ru_maxrss < rss) > ru->ru_maxrss = rss; > > Seems pretty reasonable to stick with the same behavior. Then I really > do not understand why /usr/bin/time does the conversion.
me too ;-) > FreeBSD /usr/bin/time is very different and much simpler and (of > course) does not do this conversion. > > So I suggest to change the patch to fill KB instead of pages and > change /usr/bin/time to not do the conversion. What do you think? Makes really much sense. thanks!! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
