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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-17 22:13:47 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-17 22:13:47 (GMT)
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Issue #20468: Remove incorrect information about maxrss and page size
Extract of patch by Ronald Oussoren.
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@@ -223,10 +223,7 @@ These functions are used to retrieve resource usage information:
.. function:: getpagesize()
Returns the number of bytes in a system page. (This need not be the same as the
- hardware page size.) This function is useful for determining the number of bytes
- of memory a process is using. The third element of the tuple returned by
- :func:`getrusage` describes memory usage in pages; multiplying by page size
- produces number of bytes.
+ hardware page size.)
The following :const:`RUSAGE_\*` symbols are passed to the :func:`getrusage`
function to specify which processes information should be provided for.