Re: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

On your platform, c is measured in centiseconds (10,000 microseconds) whilst e has a notional accuracy to the microsecond. So the extremes are to be expected.

Regards

Jonathan Lewis
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

  The educated person is not the person   who can answer the questions, but the   person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr

One-day tutorials:
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html

Three-day seminar:
see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November

The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:49 PM

> Reading Cary's book I understand that c and e are
> measured via different system calls (haven't truss'ed
> [well tusc'ed] them yet - I am on HP-UX 11.11), but
> would anybody know what the reasonable upper limit of
> c-e might be?
>
> I am looking at the trace file where c is more than
> two orders of magnitude greater than e, which make me
> wonder if I a have some anomaly on my system
>
> Some examples:
>
> EXEC
> #98:c=10000,e=433,p=0,cr=2,cu=2,mis=0,r=1,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777312113968
>
> EXEC
> #110:c=10000,e=390,p=0,cr=1,cu=3,mis=0,r=1,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777312181650
>
> PARSE
> #103:c=10000,e=40,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=1,og=4,tim=1777314524922
>
> Oracle 9.2.0.4.0 on HP-UX 11.11
>
> Thanks,
> Boris Dali.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
> --
> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
> --
> Author: Boris Dali
> INET: boris_dali_at_yahoo.ca
>
> Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com
> San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
> to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
> the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
> (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may
> also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).

-- 
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
-- 
Author: Jonathan Lewis
  INET: jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Fat City Network Services    -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com
San Diego, California        -- Mailing list and web hosting services
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may
also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).