[Techtalk] time a process took

[conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:15:18PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kathryn Hogg thought:
> 
> Mary said:
> > I don't know of a way to attach something like this to a running
> > process.
> 
> time strace -p $pid -e trace=none
> 
> will give you the wall clock time that it spends running until it exits
> 
> You could use a ps before starting the ps to get the start time and then
> figure out the end time - start time to calculate how long (wall clock) it
> ran for.

If it's in a script, I tend to just add 'date' commands around the
relevant command.

Conor
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