Xem ví dụ dưới đây. Automount đang hiển thị 3019: 57 trong cột TIME +.
Tasks: 241 total, 1 running, 240 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16435884k total, 15007668k used, 1428216k free, 454300k buffers
Swap: 33554424k total, 140k used, 33554284k free, 1915400k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
**27026 root 15 0 974m 12m 1616 S 3.3 0.1 3019:57 automount**
4619 root 15 0 245m 24m 9444 S 2.0 0.1 3491:25 java
20515 root 15 0 15720 1532 1124 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.03 top
1 root 15 0 10372 644 548 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.87 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:49.80 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:20.90 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 3:53.73 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:34.51 ksoftirqd/1
Có nghĩa là nó đã tiêu tốn 3019 giờ thời gian CPU?