<div dir="ltr"><div>A quick Google search ended with this - <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/151109/bash-how-do-i-get-current-unix-time-in-milliseconds" target="_blank">http://serverfault.com/questions/151109/bash-how-do-i-get-current-unix-time-in-milliseconds</a>,</div>
<div>so maybe running 'date +%s%N | cut -b1-13' before starting the process and after it's finished will help...</div><div><br></div><div>Ori<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il" target="_blank">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, as you know the time(1) command, and the times(2) system call is<br>
able to separate a process's running time into "user" and "system" time,<br>
measuring the CPU time in user space and kernel space respectively.<br>
<br>
However, these only have a jiffy (often 1/250 seconds) resultion.<br>
<br>
I'm now trying to measure a process running around 3 milliseconds, less<br>
than one jiffy, and I still want to understand how much of it is spent in<br>
user space, and how much of it is spent in kernel space (e.g., handling on<br>
minor page faults caused by this process). Does anybody have any idea what I<br>
can use to do that, preferably without modifying the Linux kernel?<br>
<br>
Before anyone asks, no - I cannot cause this 3 milliseconds to take 3<br>
seconds by looping 1000 times, because this will completely change the<br>
behavior (e.g., page faults) caused by the process. Also, I have full<br>
control of the machine, so any mechanism which measures CPU usage in the<br>
whole machine instead of just one specific process would also be fine.<br>
<br>
Any ideas would be valued.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
Nadav.<br>
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