For this, we are going to utilize the getrusage() function. Keep in mind that this is not available on Windows platforms.

getrusage.php

<?php


print_r(getrusage());
/* prints
Array
(
    [ru_oublock] => 0
    [ru_inblock] => 0
    [ru_msgsnd] => 2
    [ru_msgrcv] => 3
    [ru_maxrss] => 12692
    [ru_ixrss] => 764
    [ru_idrss] => 3864
    [ru_minflt] => 94
    [ru_majflt] => 0
    [ru_nsignals] => 1
    [ru_nvcsw] => 67
    [ru_nivcsw] => 4
    [ru_nswap] => 0
    [ru_utime.tv_usec] => 0
    [ru_utime.tv_sec] => 0
    [ru_stime.tv_usec] => 6269
    [ru_stime.tv_sec] => 0
)
 
*/


/*

ru_oublock: block output operations
ru_inblock: block input operations
ru_msgsnd: messages sent
ru_msgrcv: messages received
ru_maxrss: maximum resident set size
ru_ixrss: integral shared memory size
ru_idrss: integral unshared data size
ru_minflt: page reclaims
ru_majflt: page faults
ru_nsignals: signals received
ru_nvcsw: voluntary context switches
ru_nivcsw: involuntary context switches
ru_nswap: swaps
ru_utime.tv_usec: user time used (microseconds)
ru_utime.tv_sec: user time used (seconds)
ru_stime.tv_usec: system time used (microseconds)
ru_stime.tv_sec: system time used (seconds)

*/

// sleep for 3 seconds (non-busy)
sleep(3);
 
$data = getrusage();
echo "User time: ".
    ($data['ru_utime.tv_sec'] +
    $data['ru_utime.tv_usec'] / 1000000);
echo "System time: ".
    ($data['ru_stime.tv_sec'] +
    $data['ru_stime.tv_usec'] / 1000000);
 
/* prints
User time: 0.011552
System time: 0
*/