Net Llama! wrote: > Last week there was a thread on the Linux kernel mailng list comparing > XFS, reiserFS & ext3: > http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#13 > > looks like ext3 came in last, resierFS first, XFS in the middle.
Could someone help me interpret these numbers? ******************************************** StPeter:/mnt/part1# time cp -rf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20 ./ real 1m3.501s user 0m0.140s sys 0m2.680s StPeter:/mnt/part2# time cp -rf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20 ./ real 0m3.696s *************** so fast... user 0m0.110s sys 0m3.570s StPeter:/mnt/part3# time cp -rf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20 ./ real 1m29.697s user 0m0.090s sys 0m2.490s ******************************************** It is my understanding that "real" is the total time it took to process the command, "user" is the time it took to process the user's portion of the command, and "sys" is the time it took to process the system's portion of the command. I *thought* that "real" was affected by what *else* the cpu might be doing at the time, so that the true measure was "user" + "sys" = processing time used. Am I wrong in this? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
