[odaymansour]

You've also reminded me that while they do show up as CPU time, they wouldn't be 'user' time (for example in the output of the command 'time')

[brendangregg]

If it's user-mode loads and stores, which for applications is pretty common, it is user time. Easy to test.

[odaymansour]

Thanks for that, I'll take another look at it and see what I've been missing then.