From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 14:55:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D841594A for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:55:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24486; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:52:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Output format of time built-in command In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > When I run "# time command", it gives me output in the following format: > > 0.574u 1.357s 0:03.12 61.5% 44+199k 278+1io 13pf+0w Sure: 0.574u = Time on CPU in user mode 1.357s = Time on CPU in kernel mode 0:03.12 = Wall clock run time 61.5% = Average CPU utilization 44+199k = Memory utilization -- 44 blocks, using 199KB 278+1io = I/O utilization, I think it's the number of I/O syscalls. 13pf+0w = Number of page faults the process caused. (The VM defintion of page fault, that is; this is not an error.) This info is pulled directly from the system resource utilization structure rusage, so see the getrusage(2) manpage for detailed explanations. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message