time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, all - i hope this isn't too long, but i have evidence to go with my problem 8-) i'm running 5.3-RELEASE/i386, and i've been having a timing problem on very long programs (i asked the -questions list a year ago, and got many helpful but ultimately inadequate responses), and the same thing

Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Chris Landauer wrote: some summary output lines that illustrate the problem n46 r08 295.722u 0.417s 5:17.59 93.2% n46 r09 32031.689u 41.815s 9:34:08.17 93.1% n46 r10 5672.848u 2096.191s 635:23:04.54 0.3% (the last column is edited from the output from time in csh; the other

Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Jan-21 14:49:41 -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: i'm running some combinatorial search programs that take weeks or months to complete, and no timer i've used is able to report correctly the user and system time (they all make the same mistake - eventually the user time stops incrementing)

Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Don Lewis
On 23 Jan, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, 2005-Jan-21 14:49:41 -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: i'm running some combinatorial search programs that take weeks or months to complete, and no timer i've used is able to report correctly the user and system time (they all make the same mistake - eventually