Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Don Lewis
On 23 Jan, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 2005-Jan-21 14:49:41 -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: >>i'm running some combinatorial search programs that take weeks or months to >>complete, and no timer i've used is able to report correctly the user and >>system time (they all make the same mistake - eventu

Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Jan-21 14:49:41 -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: >i'm running some combinatorial search programs that take weeks or months to >complete, and no timer i've used is able to report correctly the user and >system time (they all make the same mistake - eventually the user time stops >incrementi

Re: time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Chris Landauer wrote: some summary output lines that illustrate the problem n46 r08 295.722u 0.417s 5:17.59 93.2% n46 r09 32031.689u 41.815s 9:34:08.17 93.1% n46 r10 5672.848u 2096.191s 635:23:04.54 0.3% (the last column is edited from the output from time in csh; the other

time and timing errors in c code on 5.x/i386 (longish)

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, all - i hope this isn't too long, but i have evidence to go with my problem 8-) i'm running 5.3-RELEASE/i386, and i've been having a timing problem on very long programs (i asked the -questions list a year ago, and got many helpful but ultimately inadequate responses), and the same thing h