Bug 783143

Summary: gnu time reports incorrect RAM usage
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Philippe Naudin <philippe.naudin>
Component: timeAssignee: Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 6.2CC: pasteur
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Description Philippe Naudin 2012-01-19 14:13:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
GNU time reports 4 times too much "maxresident" memory usage.

The problem and the fix are described here : 
http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-utils@gnu.org/msg01371.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All versions at least up to 6.2

How reproducible:
Always 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/bin/time nano <some.file> # or any other command
2. from an other terminal, check the memory used by the command (with ps, htop,...)
3. end nano (or the other command) and compare the "maxresident" reported by time with what was found by the other tools.
  
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Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2012-02-08 09:10:19 UTC 
Created attachment 560194 [details]
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Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2012-02-08 09:18:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 703865 ***