Program Run Tiime Benchmark?

jqcaducifer · 10-03-2003, 02:39 PM

Hello

I was wondering if somebody knows of a program that can be run to determine the start and end times of another process? I tried searching SourceForge, but came up with nothing.

Thanks

teval · 10-03-2003, 05:58 PM

time <program>

info time

To find the date+time when it started ended you can always use the date command and a simple shell script, but I think all you wanted is the first one.
Tells you for how long the program has run, after it ends. I know of nothing that keeps a tally and tells you as the program is running.

jqcaducifer · 10-04-2003, 03:56 PM

Thanks, that's exactly what i wanted

When the program finishes, it gives 3 times:
real
user
sys
What is the difference between these three times, and which one should i look at for time?