[Nottingham] Time

martin martin at stupids.org
Tue Jan 30 18:24:09 GMT 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:01 +0000, Peter Chang wrote:
> Josh,
> 
> In time(1), user and system times are the times spent by the process in 
> user mode and kernel mode respectively. I/O will usually be counted as 
> system time.

Would that also include DMA I/O?  I had a feeling DMA would not show up
because the CPU would be doing something else (which may be user stuff
or may be kernel stuff)

-- 
Martin.




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