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[[!tag open_issue_porting]]

Neither the `time` executable from the GNU time package work completely
correctly, nor does the GNU Bash built-in one.

    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ \time sleep 2
    0.00user 0.00system 9:38:00elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ \time sleep 4
    0.00user 0.00system 18:50:25elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ \time sleep 6
    0.00user 0.00system 28:00:53elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ time sleep 2
    
    real    0m2.093s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.011s
    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ time sleep 4
    
    real    0m4.083s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.010s
    tschwinge@flubber:~ $ time sleep 6
    
    real    0m6.164s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.010s

GNU time's *elapsed* value is off by some factor.

    $ \time factor 1111111111111111111
    1111111111111111111: 1111111111111111111
    0.00user 0.00system 52:39:24elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
    $ time factor 1111111111111111111
    1111111111111111111: 1111111111111111111
    
    real    0m11.424s
    user    0m0.000s
    sys     0m0.010s

As above; also here all the running time should be attriuted to *user* time.
This is probably a [[!taglink open_issue_gnumach]].


# 2011-09-02

Might want to revisit this, and take Xen [[!tag open_issue_xen]] into account
-- I believe flubber has already been Xenified at that time.


## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-02

While testing some [[performance/IPC_virtual_copy]] performance issues:

    <tschwinge> And I can confirm that with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=4k
      running, a parallel sleep 10 takes about 20 s (on strauss).