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From: Athanasius <Athanasius@gurus.tf>
To: Jim <jimd@starshine.org>
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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=20
>  kernel's jiffies:
>=20
>  	set -- `cat /proc/self/stat`; echo ${22}
>=20
>  The cat will start a new process, field 22? of its "stat" node=20
>  under proc should have the jiffies value at the time the process
>  was started; so the echo command execute "shortly" thereafter.
>=20
>  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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