topic Re: Top Command TIME Format in Operating System - HP-UX

Top Command TIME Format

karthkri — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:53:32 GMT

In top command output it shows TIME column,

What is the format of TIME?

Is it Minutes: Seconds

or

is it Hours:Minutes

In the below output the first process "cognos" shows time as 7:16 ( is it minutes:seconds or Hours:minutes)

Eg:

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
1 ? 12051 cognos 245 22 1876M 1842M run 7:16 84.54 84.39 rsserver
0 ? 16561 cognos 245 22 1892M 1844M run 59:27 82.09 81.95 rsserver
1 ? 1636 root 154 20 4156K 364K sleep 8:24 2.26 2.25 vbda
1 ? 20001 cognos 152 20 102M 30704K run 0:19 1.78 1.78 UpfServer
0 ? 655 oracle 148 20 413M 5048K sleep 235:37 1.69 1.69 ora_lgwr_GLGPSP
0 ? 15764 oracle 156 20 407M 3016K sleep 0:00 3.55 1.60 oracleGLGPSP

Thanks in advance

Re: Top Command TIME Format

Dennis Handly — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:26:37 GMT

>Is it Minutes: Seconds

Yes. I see some with 79:20.

Re: Top Command TIME Format

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:29:09 GMT

Hi,

If u see in man of top command it says

TIME: Number of system and CPU seconds the
process has consumed.

Re: Top Command TIME Format

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:39:16 GMT

Format is
min:ss i.e minute:seconds

Re: Top Command TIME Format

karthkri — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:42:45 GMT

guys thanks,

HP Man page was not clear enough.

Thought it it Minutes:Seconds, but still had a confusion.

Re: Top Command TIME Format

karthkri — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:44:58 GMT

Thanks

Re: Top Command TIME Format

Dennis Handly — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:47:01 GMT

If it runs for days, you start seeing some "-"??

Re: Top Command TIME Format

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:52:46 GMT

Hi,

Yes, the format is not clearly mentioned in HP man page but if u see man ps
it says in EXTERNAL INFLUENCES for XPG4 behaviour

+ The TIME column format changes from mmmm:ss to [dd-]hh:mm:ss.

This means the default time format is

minutes:seconds