"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: > In message <E1F1kOm-000FY2-8Z_at_hetzner.co.za>, Ian FREISLICH writes: > > >"One second's worth of the computer's processing time, which is > >based on actual machine cycles used, not calendar time." ? > > > >Is the getrusage() manual page out of date? > > Yes. > > It was written before anybody had gotten the rather weird idea to > have a CPU change frequency. Back then it was all about running > as fast as possible all the time. > > We are therefore forced to try to divine the intent behind the text, > and as somebody who were around back in the eighties I can testify > that the intent was to be able to bill computer users for CPU > instructions. I wonder how many people still bill for CPU time? I'd go for the faster context switches. Ian -- Ian FreislichReceived on Thu Jan 26 2006 - 05:06:45 UTC
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