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30 .\" @(#)time.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
37 .Nd time command execution
50 After the command finishes,
52 writes the total elapsed time (wall clock time),
54 the CPU time spent executing
58 and the CPU time spent executing in the operating system kernel
60 to the standard error stream.
61 Times are reported in seconds.
66 Displays information in the format used by the
71 Lists resource utilization information.
76 structure are printed; see below.
78 The output is formatted as specified by
86 have their own and syntactically different built-in version of
88 The utility described here
91 to users of these shells.
92 .Ss Resource Utilization
95 option is given, the following resource usage
96 information is displayed
97 in addition to the timing information:
98 .Bl -item -offset indent -compact
100 maximum resident set size
102 average shared memory size
104 average unshared data size
106 average unshared stack size
114 block input operations
116 block output operations
124 voluntary context switches
126 involuntary context switches
128 Resource usage is the total for the execution of
130 and any child processes it spawns, as per
133 .Bl -tag -width Xsys/resource.hX -compact
134 .It Aq sys/resource.h
139 utility exits with one of the following values:
140 .Bl -tag -width indent
142 An error occurred in the
148 was found but could not be invoked.
155 Otherwise, the exit status of
162 .Xr clock_gettime 2 ,
170 The granularity of seconds on microprocessors is crude and
171 can result in times being reported for CPU usage which are too large by