Ron is rights, but you can get an idea when you do prepend the time command like: time script It gives you a few stats.
Regards, Onno At 06:19 AM 3/23/00 +0000, Debian Linux User wrote: >Ron Rademaker wrote: > >> I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long >> (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do >> this? >> >> Ron >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >Since Perl is an interpreted language, there are no assurances as to how long >it will >take to run your script, because it highly dependent on how Perl "decides" to >process >your instructions. CGI scripts typically are under their own process anyhow, >so it >also depends on when the OS decides to schedule your script for execution. >Since >Linux is not a "Real Time" OS there are no assurances on either front. The >point >being that you can get a pretty good average (down to a tenth of a second) in >testing, but execution time may widly vary under a heavy system load. > >Solution: Average time under a heavy load and feel comfortable with an average. > >Justin > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
