I see an option in runq to check the time of the processes in the runq help runq -m Display the amount of time that the active task on each cpu has been running, expressed in a format consisting of days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Is this time the time the process has been running in this instance? Or is it the complete time the process had CPU? Example : crash> runq -m CPU 0: [0 00:00:00.000] PID: 48 TASK: ffff88045a0bcd80 COMMAND: "khungtaskd" CPU 1: [0 00:00:02.155] PID: 21 TASK: ffff88045a74ec80 COMMAND: "ksoftirqd/1" CPU 2: [2 08:03:10.267] PID: 0 TASK: ffff88045a71ec80 COMMAND: "swapper/2" CPU 3: [2 08:03:10.267] PID: 0 TASK: ffff88045a748000 COMMAND: "swapper/3" For ksoftirqd/1 it says the time is 2 seconds 155 ms What exactly is this time? The time in the current run or is it the complete CPU time of this process since boot? ------- Also I was trying to find the same using task_struct crash> task 21 ... exec_start = 201790266578639, sum_exec_runtime = 264131400786, vruntime = 18446744073703683341, prev_sum_exec_runtime = 35796104514, ... it seems like, sum_exec_runtime - prev_sum_exec_runtime should give me the time(in ns) that this process has been running in its current run sum_exec_runtime - prev_sum_exec_runtime = 264131400786 - 35796104514 = 228 seconds 228 seconds is very different from what i see in runq -m Can I please get some help on understanding and interpreting these times? Any alternate methods will also be very helpful. Thank you Sandeep