Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:21:35 +0000 | | From | Athanasius <> | | Subject | Re: Jiffies from userspace |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:33:21PM -0800, Jim wrote: > reasonable way to get an estimate of the "current" value of the > kernel's jiffies: > > set -- `cat /proc/self/stat`; echo ${22} > > The cat will start a new process, field 22? of its "stat" node > under proc should have the jiffies value at the time the process > was started; so the echo command execute "shortly" thereafter. > > But am I right about the struct of stat: Is that really in ${22}?
Assuming so try:
awk '{print $22}' /proc/self/stat
for a 'single process' version.
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