difference between UserProcessorTime, TotalProcessorTime andPrivilegedProcessorTime

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herpers

Hi,

I read some documentation and web pages about UserProcessorTime,
TotalProcessorTime and PrivilegedProcessorTime, but I still can't
tell, what the difference between those is.

I know that TotalProcessorTime is the sum of the other two, but what
is the difference between User- and PrivilegedProcessorTime?

Regards,
Sascha
 
I read some documentation and web pages about UserProcessorTime,
TotalProcessorTime and PrivilegedProcessorTime, but I still can't
tell, what the difference between those is.

I know that TotalProcessorTime is the sum of the other two, but what
is the difference between User- and PrivilegedProcessorTime?
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The simple answer is that "user" time is generally going to be your own
code executing, while "privileged" time is going to be the operating
system.

It's not quite that cut-and-dried, especially since there's a fair amount
of OS stuff that can run as "user", but unless you're just itching to
learn some esoteric academic information about how the OS works, if you
were in a situation where a finer distinction was really necessary, you'd
already know the difference.

If you do have such an itch, this isn't really the newsgroup for your
question, since it's more a general Windows OS programming issue than
something specific to .NET.

Pete
 
Hello Peter,
The simple answer is that "user" time is generally going to be your own
code executing, while "privileged" time is going to be the operating
system.
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thanks, that's enough information to ease the itching. :)

Regards
Sascha
 
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