time command output

David Rich drich at klaatu.lanl.gov
Tue Jan 30 02:29:47 AEST 1990


What do the numbers mean in the output of the (csh) time
command? The documentation simply says that you get user,
system and elapsed time (along with a "utilization" percentage).
How do these numbers relate to each other (typically, user and
system don't add up to elapsed)? What are the other numbers?
pf=page faults? io?

In general, what do these numbers say about a particular
application?

e.g., 52.7u 15.4s 1:59 56% 0+3092k 33+0io 102pf+0w

Dave
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David Rich
Military Systems Analysis Group (A-5)
MS F602
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545

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