Re: What is a CPU second?

rch 30, 2007 5:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What is a CPU second? A further word about terrminology is in order here. At least to those who care for language, CPU, Central Processing Unit, implies that there can be only one of them. For multiprocessors IBM first tried to use the t

Re: What is a CPU second

I'm not prepared to defend the two-r variant of 'terminology' in any circumstances. It was ill-considered, a typo in fact. Moreover, I have no objection to 'engine'; but my strictures about CPU and Central Processing Unit stand. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA __

Re: What is a CPU second?

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:11 +, john gilmore wrote: > A further word about terrminology is in order here. At least to those who > care for language, CPU, Central Processing Unit, implies that there can be > only one of them. John and I (and probably the rest of the known universe) have had

Re: What is a CPU second?

Chris Craddock wrote: There is zero difference in the underlying time unit or the mechanism of accumulating it. CPU time is simply the elapsed time that was spent "dispatched" on a cpu - no matter how many tasks and/or SRBs there were and no matter how many cpus there were or how fast they were