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RE: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)...


From: Bruce Dawson
Subject: RE: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)...
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:52:26 -0700

Thanks Pierre.

The profile results, especially the zoom profiler screen shot, show that
virtually all of the CPU time being consumed is from bash and its child
processes. The system is otherwise idle with no other processes running to
any significant degree. My system is ~99.5% idle when I'm not running the
test, and ~91.5% idle when the test is running.

Even when I do run other processes simultaneously they don't slow down the
bash/expr task because with twelve hardware threads there are lots to go
around.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Gaston [mailto:pierre.gaston@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:00 AM
To: Bruce Dawson
Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; bash@packages.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)...

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Bruce Dawson
<brucedawson@cygnus-software.com> wrote:
> I'll give those a try.
>
> BTW, I just posted the blog post to share what I'd found. You can see 
> it
> here:
>
> http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/counting-to-ten-on-linux/
>
> I hope it's accurate, and I do think it would be worth mentioning the 
> issue in the documentation for 'time' and the bash 'time' internal
command.
>
For what it's worth, I still thinks that time is not lying (though the man
page warns about possible inaccuracies), Your loop with expr might be "cpu
bound" but it does not run often because other processes are given a chance
to run.




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