Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 04:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/1927: User CPU time getting accounting as system time Message-ID: <199610301230.EAA11869@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/1927; it has been noted by GNATS. From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: markd@Grizzly.COM Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1927: User CPU time getting accounting as system time Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:19:26 +0100 Mark Diekhans writes: > > P5/166, ASUS MB, 32MB ram, Adaptec SCSI > > >Description: > > I ran an CPU intensive job, timing it with /usr/bin/time and the result was > 2097.84 real 0.00 user 2013.06 sys > > which is very wrong, since its almost all user time. I rebooted and ran > again and got: > > 2405.01 real 2025.56 user 2.25 sys > > which is as expected. I've seen this multiple times, too. The following is the output of "time make world" over the last two months. As you can see, in 3 out of 51 runs most of the user time got attributed to the system time. (ASUS SP3G, AMD 5x86/133, NCR SCSI, Quantum Atlas 2GB, 16MB RAM (32MB in the last few samples))) 15819.25 real 11900.86 user 2572.80 sys 16229.11 real 12131.65 user 2651.07 sys 15555.73 real 11742.57 user 2523.07 sys 15139.16 real 11507.38 user 2382.72 sys 15655.92 real 11507.00 user 2116.89 sys 16311.38 real 12133.03 user 2480.95 sys 15953.37 real 12124.38 user 2515.52 sys 16081.60 real 12067.89 user 2495.41 sys 16144.54 real 12126.24 user 2509.68 sys 15879.62 real 12055.97 user 2498.81 sys 15989.01 real 12037.57 user 2499.67 sys 15885.18 real 12047.95 user 2505.62 sys 15723.61 real 11966.01 user 2475.55 sys 15676.32 real 11915.05 user 2472.28 sys 15759.47 real 12040.03 user 2499.20 sys 15799.01 real 12056.58 user 2509.78 sys 15878.07 real 12069.65 user 2487.59 sys 15975.21 real 12067.11 user 2514.69 sys 15757.66 real 12049.61 user 2495.99 sys 17138.65 real 13537.43 user 2668.62 sys 17364.41 real 13773.14 user 2669.46 sys 17038.59 real 13498.43 user 2584.88 sys 15815.96 real 12183.34 user 2596.90 sys 16077.20 real 12205.27 user 2623.22 sys 15904.60 real 12203.17 user 2586.70 sys 16322.77 real 12343.40 user 2688.58 sys 16230.53 real 12399.03 user 2678.14 sys 16286.23 real 12228.41 user 2614.34 sys 16291.47 real 12390.42 user 2681.78 sys 15068.48 real 11599.29 user 2489.23 sys 16274.49 real 12475.23 user 2699.11 sys 16223.23 real 12485.89 user 2702.36 sys 16140.83 real 12365.74 user 2700.29 sys 16642.98 real 12825.41 user 2588.91 sys 16000.19 real 4454.90 user 10203.62 sys 16626.18 real 12689.98 user 2714.29 sys 17039.48 real 12971.43 user 2682.71 sys 16888.59 real 12957.94 user 2716.47 sys 16899.66 real 12916.22 user 2730.00 sys 17131.40 real 13208.64 user 2742.89 sys 17664.34 real 13659.86 user 2765.63 sys 17714.62 real 13684.26 user 2768.80 sys 17801.82 real 13794.24 user 2745.24 sys 18067.02 real 13817.37 user 2742.80 sys 17937.92 real 5450.79 user 11241.73 sys 18499.35 real 5558.41 user 11525.37 sys 18556.16 real 14230.53 user 2881.41 sys 18533.28 real 14153.93 user 2845.96 sys 18225.30 real 13641.48 user 3169.55 sys 18997.92 real 14213.83 user 3346.92 sys 18852.84 real 14174.29 user 3298.65 sys
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