From: Martin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:13:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #20468: Remove incorrect information about maxrss and page size
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.11rc1~11
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=793ae0d0ae02ce91c626472ca2b3e2f8d4d6229a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #20468: Remove incorrect information about maxrss and page size

Extract of patch by Ronald Oussoren.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/resource.rst b/Doc/library/resource.rst
index 7ca45347f114..f6d60588185a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/resource.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/resource.rst
@@ -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.