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mario.almeida 03-19-2010 10:34 AM
Date and time of a process when it was started
 
Hi All,
Centos 5.4 64bit

Would like to know when a particular process was started.

1.
Quote:
ll -d /proc/4014/
dr-xr-xr-x 5 mysql mysql 0 Nov 28 07:34 /proc/4014/
2.
Quote:
ps -o pid,lstart -p 4014
PID STARTED
4014 Tue Nov 17 23:10:13 2009

1) Which one should I consider?
2) why do both have such a difference?

colucix 03-19-2010 10:46 AM
I'd tell the second one. The first one is just the modification time of the directory /proc/4014, that can change under some circumstances (e.g. create or rename files inside the directory).


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