From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 00:20:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22323 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22257 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA12234 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:50:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA09756; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:50:18 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980624165018.H5023@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:50:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: FreeBSD faster than light? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can anybody explain why I'm using up a total of about 1.5 seconds of CPU time in the following examples? This is a single CPU machine (AMD K6/233) running -CURRENT as of the end of last month. The figures seem surprisingly consistent. === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 9 -> time l -rt Mail|wc 3460 31133 192864 real 0m0.517s user 0m1.230s sys 0m0.270s === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 10 -> time l -rt Mail|wc 3460 31133 192864 real 0m0.517s user 0m1.227s sys 0m0.273s === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 11 -> time l -rt Mail|wc 3460 31133 192864 real 0m0.865s user 0m1.226s sys 0m0.296s === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 12 -> time l -rt Mail|wc 3460 31133 192864 real 0m0.535s user 0m1.233s sys 0m0.278s === grog@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 13 -> Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message