How Do You Tell How Long a Process Has Been Running Linux?
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How do you check how long a process has been running Linux?

If you want to figure out how long a process has been running in Linux for some reason. We can easily check with the help of “ps” command. It shows, the given process uptime in the form of [[DD-]hh:]mm:ss, in seconds, and exact start date and time. There are multiple options are available in ps command to check this.

How do I see processes running time?

Linux Commands to Find Process Runtimes

  1. Step 1: Find Process id by Using the ps Command. $ ps -ef | grep java. ​ …
  2. Step 2: Find the Runtime or Start Time of a Process. Once you have the PID, you can look into proc directory for that process and check the creation date, which is when the process was started.
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