On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:02, Ghislain Garcon wrote: > > >real 0m7.057s > >user 0m0.640s > >sys 0m6.260s > > > > > >In other words: my Celeron 1200 MHz just did more than 100000 open/read/close's > >per 1 sec. > > > > > > > As open() read() and close() are system calls, your execution time > souldn't be 6.26+0.64=6.9s Why it shouldn't be? Can't you try that program too? > and 7.057-6.9=0.157s is the time given to > other process (scheduler....)? Maybe. -- vda