# Determining Time Spent in Kernel and User Space

This section illustrates how to determine the amount of time any given thread is spending in either kernel or user-space.

## thread-times.stp

threadtimes lists the top 20 processes currently taking up CPU time within a 5-second sample, along with the total number of CPU ticks made during the sample. The output of this script also notes the percentage of CPU time each process used, as well as whether that time was spent in kernel space or user space.

threadtimesoutput contains a 5-second sample of the output for threadtimes:

## threadtimes Sample Output

      tid   %user %kernel (of 20002 ticks)
        0   0.00%  87.88%
    32169   5.24%   0.03%
     9815   3.33%   0.36%
     9859   0.95%   0.00%
     3611   0.56%   0.12%
     9861   0.62%   0.01%
    11106   0.37%   0.02%
    32167   0.08%   0.08%
     3897   0.01%   0.08%
     3800   0.03%   0.00%
     2886   0.02%   0.00%
     3243   0.00%   0.01%
     3862   0.01%   0.00%
     3782   0.00%   0.00%
    21767   0.00%   0.00%
     2522   0.00%   0.00%
     3883   0.00%   0.00%
     3775   0.00%   0.00%
     3943   0.00%   0.00%
     3873   0.00%   0.00%