Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0107231353360.13314-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2001-07-23T12:59:31Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: system.time
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1010723114619.17646A-100000@ija.csic.es>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>
> The manual entry for system.time refers to
> "user, system, and total elapsed times for the currently running R
> process".
>
> Is user time the time spent by the process itself and system time the
> time spent on other system activities?
These are reported by your (presumably Unix?) system. Most likely both
times are spent by the R process, the `user' time in the user code space,
and the `system' time in kernel calls.
Look up the times system call on your system for the exact details.
For example, Solaris says
The tms_utime member is the CPU time used while executing
instructions in the user space of the calling process.
The tms_stime member is the CPU time used by the system on
behalf of the calling process.
On Unix-alikes, system.time calls proc.time whose C code calls times.
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