Re: numbers don't lie ...

On Thursday 14 September 2006 19:28, Gary Corcoran wrote:
The confusing thing is that I thought 'real' time should be >= 'user' +
'sys'. But here 'user' is much greater than 'real' for both machines! The
sense I got from the other messages in this thread is that 'user' time is
somewhat meaningless (i.e. unreliable as a measure) in a multi-CPU and/or
hyperthreading environment. Can you clarify?

user time = time spent in userland on all logical processors combined.

The right equation is: real * ncpus > user + sys, where ncpus = number of
active logical processors.
In the optimal case (perfect parallelism): real * ncpus = user + sys


- Pieter
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