Re: what is the difference?

cot_r wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using tkprof. What is the difference between the CPU time and the
> ELAPSED time?
> thx

On a system where the CPU is shared by multiple processes, each process only gets a certain amount of actual CPU time. The elapsed time is the amount of time from when the process starts until it ends whereas CPU time is the amount of time that the task was actually using the CPU. That is a simplistic explanation, so there is a vast amount of details to how this all happens. Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 14:12:50 CDT