time gives a strange result

Sijmen J. Mulder ik at sjmulder.nl
Thu Jan 14 02:07:43 UTC 2021


Hi Erich,

Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 5m19.94s real           1h15m31.76s user                5m20.87s sys
> 
> I do not know how long it really took but 1h seems far to high. It
> really could be 15min.

Looks like parallel processing, e.g. make running jobs on multiple CPU
cores at once.  If that's the case, the 'real' time is the actual
elapsed time while 'user' and 'sys' are cumulative times per core.

Sijmen


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