Re: [PATCH for -mm] getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi

> I'm worrying particularly about the fork/exec issue you highlight.
> You're exemplary in providing your test programs, but there's a big
> omission: you don't mention that the first test, "./getrusage -lc",
> gives a very different result on Linux than you say it does on BSD -
> you say the BSD fork line is "fork: self 0 children 0", whereas
> I find my Linux fork line is "fork: self 102636 children 0".

FreeBSD update rusage at tick updating point. (I think all bsd do that)
Then, bsd displaing 0 is bsd's problem :)

Do I must change test program?

> So after that discrepancy, I can't tell what to expect.  Not that
> I can make any sense of BSD's "self 0" there - I don't know how
> you could present 0 there if this is related to hiwater_rss.
> 
> Now I'm seriously wondering if the ru_maxrss reported will generate
> more bugreports from people puzzled as to how it should behave,
> than help anyone in studying their process behaviour.
> 
> Sorry to be so negative after all this time: I genuinely hope others
> will spring up to defend your patch and illustrate my stupidity.





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