Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 12/01/2017 08:49 AM, hw wrote:
# time foo
real    43m39.841s
user    15m31.109s
sys     0m44.136s


Almost 30 minutes have disappeared, but it actually took about that long,
so what happened?


I may misunderstand your question, but

"time" is provided by the bash shell.  It may be provided by a command if you are using a 
different shell.  When the command following the "time" keyword completes, bash will 
print the amount of elapsed time (the amount of time that passed between the command's start and 
its exit), the amount of time the command was using the CPU and not in a sleep state, and the 
amount of time the kernel was using the CPU to service requests from the command.

So your "foo" application was in a sleep state for around 30 minutes of the 44 
minutes that passed between when you started it and when it finished.

Hm.  Foo is a program that imports data into a database from two CVS files,
using a connection for each file and forking to import both files at once.

So this would mean that the database (running on a different server) takes
almost two times as much as foo --- which I would consider kinda excruciatingly
long because it´s merely inserting rows into two different tables after they 
were
prepared by foo and then processes some queries to convert the data.

The queries after importing may take like 3 or 5 minutes.  About 4.5 million 
rows
are being imported.

Would you consider about 20 minutes for importing as long?

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