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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:26:20PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
>To that end, I've cobbled up a Perl script that acts as a "wrapper"
>around time(1) and uses that command to obtain the "rusage" (ref.
>getrusage(2)) information about the command in question.

Whilst not addressing your issues with sysctl, have you considered
using process accounting (acct(5) and sa(8))?

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Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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