Not really suggestion, but anyway...
If the process that quick why it is of such interest what time it spent in user
space and in kernel space?
Valery
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> From: Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]>
>To: Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:25 AM
>Subject: Re: High-resolution user/system times?
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>On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>On Wed, Jul 25, 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: High-resolution
>user/system times?":
>>
>>> > Hi, as you know the time(1) command, and the times(2) system call is
>>> > able to separate a process's running time into "user" and "system" time,
>>> > measuring the CPU time in user space and kernel space respectively.
>>> >
>>> > However, these only have a jiffy (often 1/250 seconds) resultion.
>>>...
>>>
>>> man 2 getrusage ?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>The manual page seems promising, talking about microseconds, but I don't
>>believe it actually has a microsecond resolution. I think it has the
>>same jiffy resolution that times() has. Do you believe that it does
>>have microsecond resolution?
>>
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>No, I know it doesn't. Actually, I looked the kernel code up, I do think that
>HZ is 100 (by default), and jiffies_to_usecs is faking it.
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>Maybe you need to resort to clock_gettime with CLOCK_REALTIME. Some mentioned
>related instrumentation earlier in this thread.
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>>I think we're starting to build here a long list of manual-page bugs...
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