siping@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Siping Liu) (09/15/90)
I am using the "time" command monitoring the running time of my program. I wonder why for the same program and the same input data, the user's time differs from each running at about 10%. I imagine the biggest system environment influence would be the system page faults, which should be counted in the system's time. So what else can create this running time difference??? Thanks for your attention. siping@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu