From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 18:23:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14832 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14715 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-249.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.249]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA04772; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:22:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16315; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:12:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806250112.UAA16315@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Hackers From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD faster than light? In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:50:18 +0930." <19980624165018.H5023@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:12:27 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > 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 What's "l"? n4hhe: {526} time l -rt Mail|wc l: Command not found. 0 0 0 n4hhe: {527} -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message