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Hi All,

I am running the following accounting on one of my executable,

$ accton /home/myexe-acct
$ ./myexe
$ accton

When I check the process timings I get the below result,
Shell process time: 300ms
myexe time: 100ms

I want to know on why the shell(sh) process is taking so much time more than the executable itself. Is the shell process time shown is the time to load the executable myexe in memory?

Let me know for any more information.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Santosh

Try:

Code:

$ time ./myexe

and if you have it

Code:

$ timex ./myexe

These will give a break down of resource use that may give us a bit more of a clue