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From: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: etime complex user time variance
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.153317.7801@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Jul 90 15:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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Can anyone offer a good explaination as to why the user time
portion from etime can vary greatly (we just saw 2x difference)
between runs.  I can justify away some of it but not as much
as what we are seeing.  What are other peoples experiences?

-rich

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