XFS, ReiserFS, And ext3 Comparisons

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> "real" is the elapsed time, a/k/a "wall clock time"
> "user" is the time spent executing user mode code
> "sys" is the time spent executing system calls
> 
> What you don't see is the impact of caches, time spent in block
> transfers, that sort of thing.
> 
> Kurt

Would I be correct, then, in saying that these times are really meaningless,
since they don't indicate the actual time taken by the instructions without
regard to other load on the system?


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