Re: Bug/limitation in 'time'

[Pierre Gaston]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Bruce Dawson
<brucedawson@cygnus-software.com> wrote:
> The man page is clear that it is displaying the results of wait3(). However
> it doesn't mention that this means that sub-process startup time is not
> accounted for. That's what I feel should be clarified. Otherwise a CPU bound
> task may appear to not be CPU bound.
>
> My expectation is that the sum of 'user' and 'sys' time should equal the
> elapsed time because the overall task is 100% CPU bound (I've confirmed
> this). It is unfortunate that the sub-process startup time is not accounted
> for in 'user' or 'sys' time, and I think it would be appropriate to document
> this.

I'm not sure these are not taken into account, my guess is that the
difference between real and sys+user can well be due to the other
processes of your system trying to run