Re: How to find the CPU usage of a process

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:42:29AM -0800, Irfan Habib wrote:

> I wanted to ask how can I find the cpu usage of a process, as
> opposed to runtime, with cpu usage I mean actually how many time
> slices were awarded to a specific process, like the runtime of job
> may be 4 s, but this also includes time it was suspended by some
> interrupt, or had to wait for the scheduler etc..

getrusage(2) or if it's not a child then grovel through /proc (i think
there is an argument for a better interface)
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