Kurt Wall wrote: > "real" is the elapsed time, a/k/a "wall clock time" > "user" is the time spent executing user mode code > "sys" is the time spent executing system calls > > What you don't see is the impact of caches, time spent in block > transfers, that sort of thing. > > Kurt
Would I be correct, then, in saying that these times are really meaningless, since they don't indicate the actual time taken by the instructions without regard to other load on the system? 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
