time doesn't work?

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 21:08:51 UTC 2010


>
> [garrcoop at garrcoop-fbsd ~]$ time vim nose-plist-fix.diff
>
> # monkeyed around for a few seconds...
>
> real    0m5.753s
> user    0m0.047s
> sys     0m0.019s
>
> [garrcoop at garrcoop-fbsd ~/ipcvs/freebsd/src]$ time -p vim
>
> # pattered around for a few more seconds...
>
> real 12.04
> user 0.07
> sys 0.03
>

I'm not sure that this means much.  user and system time measure how
much *cpu* time was used.  In an interactive application like vi I
think that it's expected behaviour to see so little cpu time spent.


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