On your platform, c is measured in centiseconds (10,000 microseconds) whilst e has a notional accuracy to the microsecond. So the extremes are to be expected.
Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:49 PM > Reading Cary's book I understand that c and e are > measured via different system calls (haven't truss'ed > [well tusc'ed] them yet - I am on HP-UX 11.11), but > would anybody know what the reasonable upper limit of > c-e might be? > > I am looking at the trace file where c is more than > two orders of magnitude greater than e, which make me > wonder if I a have some anomaly on my system > > Some examples: > > EXEC > #98:c=10000,e=433,p=0,cr=2,cu=2,mis=0,r=1,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777312113968 > > EXEC > #110:c=10000,e=390,p=0,cr=1,cu=3,mis=0,r=1,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777312181650 > > PARSE > #103:c=10000,e=40,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777314524922 > > Oracle 9.2.0.4.0 on HP-UX 11.11 > > Thanks, > Boris Dali. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Boris Dali > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
