From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-01-06T21:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: /proc/PID/stat documentation?

Cian wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@polytechnique.org> wrote:
>> Try "man 5 proc", but I'm afraid it should be more or less the same
>> information than in the kernel docs ...
>>
> Yep, the proc(5) manpage explains what the *time variables mean.
> 
> The units are 'jiffies', which appear to be Linux kernel scheduler run
> time intervals. There's an explanation of what jiffies are at
> 
>  http://kerneltrap.org/node/6857
> 
Thanks - that's exactly what I was after.

-- 
Alex