Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jjiao@blaze.rutgers.edu (Jia Jiao)
Subject: pvm timing
Keywords: timing
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR
Date: 5 Aug 1994 17:10:09 -0400
Message-ID: <31u9rh$j1p@blaze.rutgers.edu>


    How do you people time the pvm programs? I use "gettimeofday" but
it is very unstable, depends on the processor load, network traffic etc...
On the other hand the Fortran timer etime seems to give consistent timing
but it seems to exclude the node time. (Is it CPU time?)

   Thanks.

  Please respond to jjiao@cs.rutgers.edu

