On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:05:03PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 09/30/04 23:21, Haines Brown wrote:
> > $ time host www.debian.org > > www.debian.org A 194.109.137.218 > > > > real 0m0.027s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.000s > > > >The man and info time did not make clear to me what "real", "user" and > >"sys" refer to. Would you inlighten me? What is the "A"? Why zero time > >for the user and sys? > > Haines, > > Beats me, I'm the average Joe that sits in this Ferrari called debian > GNU/Linux and says, "wow!" :) As far as I understand, and I could be wrong - "real" is the "real world" time taken for the command to run. "user" is how long the command spent processing user-space code. "sys" is how long the command spent processing kernel-space code. Cheers, Tom -- But Officer, I stopped for the last one, and it was green! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
