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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: EOL sequence reporting/Locale [was: Splitting mbox into individual files.]
From:       Dave Howorth <dave () howorth ! org ! uk>
Date:       2023-01-21 20:13:31
Message-ID: 20230121201331.0b9e39c6 () acer-suse ! lan
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 01:33:27 +0000 (UTC)
Robert Webb <webbdg@verizon.net> wrote:
 
> > A second run times, with mbox hopefully cached:
> >
> > real       0m6,795s
> > user       0m11,235s
> > sys       0m1,193s  
> 
> It is quicker, as you expected, but those times are strange.   I always
> thought that the real (elapsed) time had to be greater than or equal
> to the sum of the user and sys (kernel) times.
> 
> man pages: time(1), time(1p), times(2)

It depends how many cores the programs use. And pipes can be inherently
parallel. The CPU usage of 182% in Carlos' subsequent mail gives the
game away.
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