Re: what is the difference?

From: cot_r <bvanespen_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 20:28:59 GMT
Message-ID: <faIs8.8328$Ze.2574@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>

"Kenneth C Stahl" <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3CB33D2D.FA03F04D_at_yahoo.com...
> 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.

ok, got the basic thought now! thx Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 15:28:59 CDT