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getrusage() reports kernel counters that are updated only once application loses context and a switch to kernel space happens. For example on modern Linux server kernels that would mean that getrusage() calls would return information rounded at 10ms, desktop kernels - at 1ms.
getrusage() isn't usable for micro-measurements at all - and getmicrotime(true) might be much more valuable resource.
getrusage
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
getrusage — Gets the current resource usages
Description
array getrusage
([ int $who
] )
This is an interface to getrusage(2). It gets data returned from the system call.
Parameters
- who
-
If who is 1, getrusage will be called with RUSAGE_CHILDREN.
Return Values
Returns an associative array containing the data returned from the system call. All entries are accessible by using their documented field names.
Examples
Example #1 getrusage() example
<?php
$dat = getrusage();
echo $dat["ru_nswap"]; // number of swaps
echo $dat["ru_majflt"]; // number of page faults
echo $dat["ru_utime.tv_sec"]; // user time used (seconds)
echo $dat["ru_utime.tv_usec"]; // user time used (microseconds)
?>
Notes
Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.
See Also
- Your system's man page on getrusage(2)
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User Contributed Notesgetrusage
Domas Mituzas
14-Jan-2008 06:22
14-Jan-2008 06:22
php at lavrenko dot pp dot ru
19-Oct-2005 08:21
19-Oct-2005 08:21
The author of the article mentioned in the previous post says "Once I got a negative value for both times - I have absolutely no clue how that can happen.". This is because time in microseconds is not padded with zeros from the left, therefore, you cannot concatenate the two numbers. Instead, you should normalize the values and then add them up:
$dat["ru_utime.tv_sec"]*1e6+$dat["ru_utime.tv_usec"];
ng4rrjanbiah at rediffmail dot com
17-Nov-2004 07:51
17-Nov-2004 07:51
Here is a nice comment on benchmarking PHP codes using getrusage function http://blog.rompe.org/node/85
HTH,
R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah