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<h1 class="refname">posix_times</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">posix_times</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get process times</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.posix-times-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>posix_times</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Gets information about the current CPU usage.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.posix-times-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a hash of strings with information about the current
process CPU usage. The indices of the hash are:
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
ticks - the number of clock ticks that have elapsed since
reboot.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
utime - user time used by the current process.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
stime - system time used by the current process.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
cutime - user time used by current process and children.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
cstime - system time used by current process and children.
</span>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.posix-times-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
<p class="para">
This function isn't reliable to use, it may return negative values for
high times.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 Example use of <span class="function"><strong>posix_times()</strong></span></strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$times </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">posix_times</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$times</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
Array
(
[ticks] => 25814410
[utime] => 1
[stime] => 1
[cutime] => 0
[cstime] => 0
)
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