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<h2 class="chapter">22 Resource Usage And Limitation</h2>
<p>This chapter describes functions for examining how much of various kinds of
resources (CPU time, memory, etc.) a process has used and getting and setting
limits on future usage.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Resource-Usage.html#Resource-Usage">Resource Usage</a>: Measuring various resources used.
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Limits-on-Resources.html#Limits-on-Resources">Limits on Resources</a>: Specifying limits on resource usage.
<li><a accesskey="3" href="Priority.html#Priority">Priority</a>: Reading or setting process run priority.
<li><a accesskey="4" href="Memory-Resources.html#Memory-Resources">Memory Resources</a>: Querying memory available resources.
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