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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:06:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-SMP@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New stats 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.970109160457.5886B-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199701091831.LAA22846@clem.systemsix.com>

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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Steve Passe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > --(PPro/166, 2 CPUs, 512k internal cache/CPU)----------------------
> > 2 CPUs Active
> > ...
> > make -j 8, 186.33 real  180.30 user   65.83 sys    2.266
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't understand these times, specifically the user column.  On my system I
> get:
> 
> time make -j8, 267.32s real  396.20s user   94.68s system 
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> ie, since 2 CPUs are being used, I get more user time than real time, yet
> you show slightly less.  Are you normalizing that column also?

No.  the only column I jiggered was the one I added, the one labelled
real/normalized, all the rest were directly out of /usr/bin/time.

The numbers are repeatable.  I double-checked that.

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