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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: problem with time command? (/bin/time)
Message-ID: <18849@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 21 Dec 90 13:39:40 GMT
References: <1471@beaudin.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <1471@beaudin.UUCP> john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes:
>On SCO Unix 3.2.2, the results of 
>	$ /bin/time sleep 10
>are
>	real 5.9
>
>The Csh time gives a value of 0:10.
>Is /bin/time known to be incorrect?

Sounds like someone forgot to set their HZ variable correctly -

% HZ=50 /bin/time /bin/sleep 10

real         9.2
user         0.0
sys          0.1
% HZ=100 /bin/time /bin/sleep 10

real         4.7
user         0.0
sys          0.0
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