Top Command TIME Format

[karthkri]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>Is it Minutes: Seconds

Yes. I see some with 79:20.

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

Hi,

If u see in man of top command it says

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

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

Format is
min:ss i.e minute:seconds

[karthkri]

guys thanks,

HP Man page was not clear enough.

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

[karthkri]

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

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

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

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