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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RESEND2] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:48:44 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > (updated)
> >
> > This patch makes ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to
> > rss hiwater mark. This struct is filled as a parameter to
> > getrusage syscall. ->ru_maxrss value is set to pages which might be correct
> > as "time" application converts it to KBs.
>
> Why?
> if kernel convert to KB, glibc don't need any change.
Where exactly glibc is working with this as KBs? I can't find that place.

I looked into sources of time util and maxrss is showed this way:
fprintf (fp, "%lu", ptok ((UL) resp->ru.ru_maxrss));
ptok() actually does pages_to_KB conversion. If we convert to KB in
kernel, this code must be changed.
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