rusage

- print resource usage for a command

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/rusage command

Description

The rusage command is similar to time(1). It runs the given command, which must be specified; that is, command is not optional as it is in the C shell's timing facility. When the command is complete, rusage displays the real (wall clock), the system CPU, and the user CPU times which elapsed during execution of the command, plus other fields in the rusage structure, all on one long line. Times are reported in seconds and hundredths of a second.

Examples

Example 1 The format of rusage output

The example below shows the format of rusage output.

example% rusage wc /usr/share/man/man1/csh (1)
3045   13423   78071 /usr/share/man/man1/csh (1)
2.26 real 0.80 user 0.36 sys 11 pf 38 pr 0 sw 11 rb 0 wb 16 vcx 37
         icx 24 mx 0 ix 1230 id 9 is
example%

Each of the fields identified corresponds to an element of the rusage structure, as described in getrusage(3C), as follows:

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

csh(1), time(1), getrusage(3C), attributes(5)

Bugs

When the command being timed is interrupted, the timing values displayed may be inaccurate.