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From: tgoodwin@houligan.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: execution timing and time(1)
Message-ID: <17@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 08:22:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 08:22:30 1986
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Organization: Gould Electronics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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The only way I have felt comfortable with UNIX time results is to
run on an an otherwise idle system.  Due to the rather sloppy time
handling and accounting, variation on a loaded system is to be 
expected.
				Tom Goodwin
				{sun,brl-bmd,pur-ee}!gould!tgoodwin