On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:21:38PM -0400, Will Cohen wrote: > # The actual benchmark being timed is below. > /usr/bin/time /bin/cat `pwd`/jarg422.txt 2>> $RESULTS_FILE You're profiling cat under gnome-terminal, not gnome-terminal + cat. Wouldn't be better to run instead: /usr/bin/time gnome-terminal -x cat $PWD/jarg422.txt Regards, Luciano Rocha