numbers don't lie ...

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran at rcn.com> writes:
> > The confusing thing is that I thought 'real' time should be >= 'user' + 'sys'.
> > But here 'user' is much greater than 'real' for both machines!  The sense I
> > got from the other messages in this thread is that 'user' time is somewhat
> > meaningless (i.e. unreliable as a measure) in a multi-CPU and/or hyperthreading
> > environment.  Can you clarify?
> real >= (user + sys) * ncpu

umm, other way around of course.

real * ncpu >= (user + sys)

DES
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