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 Cian