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2006 Mar 02
1
Failing to understand getrusage()
I'm failing to understand how getrusage() works, which is a bit perplexing,
because it doesn't seem like it would be terribly complicated.
I've attached the code. My aim is to verify that I can use getrusage() to
do (admittedly crude) instrumentation of which functions in my program are
allocating lots of memory[1]. So I figure I can call getrusage() at various
points and look at
2003 Jul 30
1
kernel panic
...2000:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=322837+0+archive/2000/freebsd-s
table/20000625.freebsd-stable
This was apparently fixed by a patch discussed in this thread.
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/171/2000/11/0/4718890/
The patch was applied to version 1.66 and 1.67 of /sys/kern/kern_resource.c
I browsed through the CVS for these changes, but found no evidence of them
ever being merged to RELENG_4.
This is a real memory corruption in the kernel. If these changes were never
merged, does anyone know wny? Can anyone suggest a course of action to
resolve this?