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

2013-03-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
ake. Either way, the consistent and pervasive conclusion is that time's CPU consumption results are significantly understated when multiple processes are involved. It would be nice to have that acknowledged in the documentation. If not, well, that's why I have a blog. -Original Message- F

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

2013-03-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
upported by significant evidence. FWIW. -Original Message- From: Bruce Dawson [mailto:brucedaw...@cygnus-software.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:44 AM To: 'Linda Walsh' Cc: 'bug-bash' Subject: RE: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)... Not

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

2013-03-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
kernels are behaving quite similarly. > What documentation would you have updated? The bash documentation where it mentions the 'time' command, and the 'time' documentation. -Original Message- From: Linda Walsh [mailto:b...@tlinx.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 20,

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

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
te.. you said your loop took 2 seconds on your 3.2GHz sys. Yes, but that was then my system was running at 1.1 GHz. When my system ramps up to its full speed then the 1,000 iterations are done in less than a second. Our systems are quite consistent there. -Original Message- From: Linda Wa

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

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
s problematic for determining CPU usage. I'm not sure what its limitations are. -Original Message- From: Linda Walsh [mailto:b...@tlinx.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:10 AM To: Bruce Dawson; bug-bash Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)... Bruce Dawson

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

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
ailto:b...@tlinx.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:19 AM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: 'Pierre Gaston'; bug-bash@gnu.org; b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)... I think you misunderstand...what Pierre is saying -- your process is scheduled

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

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:00 AM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel setings?)... On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: > I'll give those a try. > > BTW, I just posted the

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

2013-03-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
7;time' and the bash 'time' internal command. -Original Message- From: Linda Walsh [mailto:b...@tlinx.org] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 7:15 PM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' (kernel seting

RE: Bug/limitation in 'time'

2013-03-17 Thread Bruce Dawson
day, March 17, 2013 8:36 PM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: 'Chris Down'; bug-bash@gnu.org; b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' Bruce Dawson wrote: > Yep, we've changed our loops to use roughly that syntax. Unfortunately > a lot of online resources r

RE: Bug/limitation in 'time'

2013-03-17 Thread Bruce Dawson
propriate to document this. Anyway, if the docs can be updated I think that would be great. If not, no worries. -Original Message- From: Pierre Gaston [mailto:pierre.gas...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:31 PM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation i

RE: Bug/limitation in 'time'

2013-03-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
[mailto:ch...@chrisdown.name] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:58 PM To: Bruce Dawson Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' Hi Bruce, On 2013-03-16 17:41, Bruce Dawson wrote: > I think it's important because when I hit this problem (

RE: Bug/limitation in 'time'

2013-03-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
org Cc: Chris Down; Bruce Dawson Subject: Re: Bug/limitation in 'time' On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Chris Down wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > On 2013-03-16 17:41, Bruce Dawson wrote: >> I think it's important because when I hit this problem (using $(expr) >> for looping in shell

Bug/limitation in 'time'

2013-03-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='$ uname output: Linux Ubuntu1m 3.2.0-35-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:04:39