Process's Percent Time


Subject: Process's Percent Time
From: Patrick Laidlaw (tek9@alaska.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 16:24:55 AKST


Hello Guys.
    I just ran ps -ax on a box that I am running. I was wondering
about the column under time. Is that percent processor time being
taken up or is that how long something is running. My assumption is
percent processor time but please correct me if wrong.

Patrick Laidlaw

 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
    1 ? S 0:02 init
    2 ? SW 0:00 [kflushd]
    3 ? SW 0:00 [kpiod]
    4 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd]
  218 ? SL 0:01 xntpd -A
  267 ? SW 0:00 [squid]
  270 ? S 1:56 (squid) -D
  278 ? S 0:00 (unlinkd)
  281 ? S 0:20 syslogd -m 0
  291 ? SW 0:00 [klogd]
  317 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
  330 ? S 0:00 crond
  343 ? S 0:00 [slapd]
  344 ? S 0:00 [slapd]
  345 ? S 0:00 [slapd]
  359 ? S 1:19 named
  372 ? S 0:00 inetd
  379 ? S 0:14 /usr/sbin/sshd
  392 ? SW 0:00 [lpd]
  399 ? S 0:00 [lpd]
  416 ? S 0:04 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q1h
  456 ? S 0:01 httpd
  520 tty1 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  521 tty2 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  522 tty3 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  523 tty4 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  524 tty5 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  525 tty6 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
  526 ? S 0:00 /sbin/mgetty ttyS0
  531 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
  539 ? S 0:03 atalkd
  763 ? SW 0:00 [papd]
15005 ? S 0:19 /usr/sbin/dhcpd
10116 ? S 0:00 httpd
10117 ? S 0:00 httpd
10118 ? S 0:00 httpd
10119 ? S 0:00 httpd
10120 ? S 0:00 httpd
10121 ? S 0:00 httpd
10122 ? S 0:00 httpd
10123 ? S 0:00 httpd
10124 ? S 0:00 httpd
10125 ? S 0:00 httpd
13551 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
13553 pts/1 S 0:00 -bash
13609 pts/1 R 0:00 ps -ax



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