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You may want to try LTT:
http://www.opersys.com/LTT

It will give this sort of information, among many other things,
and it doesn't soak up any cycles.

Karim

Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> 
> "top" and similar tools don't seem to capture the time spent in kernel
> which isn't on behalf of a user process.
> 
> I vaguely remember mention on this list of a tool that soaks up as many
> cycles as it can get to obtain an accurate measurement of the true
> system time.
> 
> Can some one give me a pointer?  I've had no luck with Google...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Torrey Hoffman
> thoffman@arnor.net
> torrey.hoffman@myrio.com
> 
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