Re: time-1.7 counts rusage wrong on Linux

[Bob Proulx]

David C Niemi wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Please keep me in the reply list on replies; I'm not subscribed to
> > bug-gnu-utils.
> > ...
> > time-1.7 converts rusage values from page size units to K, unconditionally,
> > but this is wrong at least on Linux, where they are already reported in K.
> > That results in time printing out values that are four times too big.
> >
> > The source contains the comment "Note: Some machines express getrusage
> > statistics in terms of K, others in terms of pages." but has no actual code
> > that attempts to tell or ever works for those "some machines".
> 
> I think I have a patch for this lying around somewhere.  I will take
> care of it in the next release.

I maintain patches for time-1.7 for Debian.  These patches are
available for viewing here:

  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/time/1.7-24

Of which the two you are most interested in are these:

  
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/rusage-portability.patch

  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/ru_maxrss.patch

However the others are also important and useful.

Bob