[R] How much time a process need?

[Rolf Turner]

On 08/11/11 02:40, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Alaios<alaios at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> So I just need to get the
>>
>>     user  system elapsed
>>    0.460   0.048  67.366
>>
>>
>> user value and convert the seconds to days and then to hours ? Right?
>>
>> What about this elapsed field?
> It's all in seconds.  Convert whatever fields you want.

That being said, doesn't having an elapsed time of over 67 seconds,
when the actual calculation takes less than half a second, indicate
that something weird is going on?  At the very least the R calculations
are fighting for resources with some other very greedy processes.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner