On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 09:52, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > > The net result > > with the suggested change on gnome-terminal is that you get the amount > > of time it takes to fire off the command to the gnome-terminal server, > > not the amount of time to complete the task. The /usr/bin/time will > > finish long before the cat is actually done. > > Oh, yes, I forgot. I usually run gnome-terminal with the options > --disable-factory --sm-disable. They should prevent the use of a > gnome-terminal server, giving more meaningful results. But is it interesting to time the startup time of gnome-terminal? While that's perhaps an interesting benchmark as well, it has little correlation with questions like "how fast will my kernel compile go when run in gnome-terminal"? If we are measuring wall clock time, timing the cat command seems to be pretty appropriate. If we are measuring CPU usage, then we need to find CPU usage from the terminal *and* from the X server, so we already need to use a tool like oprofile that can get a global view. Regards, Owen
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