wall-clock time profiling

[Akihiro KAYAMA]

In article <465DB587.6010109 at mac.com>,
Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:

cswiger> Akihiro KAYAMA wrote:
cswiger> > Hi all.
cswiger> > 
cswiger> > What is the right way to measure wall-clock time in profiling on FreeBSD?
cswiger> 
cswiger> The time shell builtin command or "/usr/bin/time -l _program_"?
cswiger> 
cswiger> The latter variant displays the rusage struct (ie, from "man getrusage")?

Thanks for your response.

Yes, we can know whether the program is I/O bound or CPU bound by
time(1). But it is still unclear which part of the program is really
waiting for I/O. So profiling is needed for tuning, although CPU time
profiling gives me non-distinct result on I/O bound programs.  It is
reason why I want wall-clock time profiling.

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Akihiro KAYAMA