[Bug 15751] `time` function reports more `maxrss` usage than GNU time

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Fri Nov 10 04:36:16 UTC 2023


https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15751

--- Comment #1 from Wesley Moore <wes at wezm.net> ---
It seems that time is treating the the `ru_maxrss` value as a count of
pages[1][2] but it's already in kilobytes[3]:

> ru_maxrss (since Linux 2.6.32)
> This is the maximum resident set size used (in kilobytes).

[1]: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/miscutils/time.c#n125
[2]: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/miscutils/time.c#n284
[3]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrusage.2.html

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