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From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (D.CHEN)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: 98% in < 2s
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 16:47:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 16:47:51 1987
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> 
> > Second, another correspondent noted that in ten million process activations
> > on his system, 98% took less than two seconds of cpu time.  This means that
> > loading them was a significant fraction of all the work done in executing
> > them.
> 
> It depends.  The realtime to vfork/exec something on my machine is
> about 0.014s, or 0.7% of 2s.  So the data needs to be more complete to
> make this conclusion (like how many of them were < 0.1s, where the
> loading is 10% of the time).
> 
i would think that this time does not include the time to demand load
the pages needed to generate a "prompt" or any such thing that the user
is waiting for.

danny chen
homxc!dwc