https://www.netdata.cloud/tags/glances/Recent content in Glances on NetdataHugoen-usTue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/netdata-processes-monitoring-comparison-with-console-tools/Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/netdata-processes-monitoring-comparison-with-console-tools/<p>Netdata reads <code>/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat</code> for all processes, once per second and extracts <code>utime</code> and <code>stime</code> (user and system cpu utilization), much like all the console tools do.</p> <p>But it also extracts <code>cutime</code> and <code>cstime</code> that account the user and system time of the exit children of each process. By keeping a map in memory of the whole process tree, it is capable of assigning the right time to every process, taking into account all its exited children.</p>