The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

Linux marks time in the number of seconds since the start of the Linux epoch. Here's a script for using that information to figure how many days separate two dates expressed in traditional calendar ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

I am trying to devise the best way to measure the time an application spends executing in both user and system space on Linux (x86). I don't necessarily have to have user and system time measured ...

In the January/February 2002 issue of Embedded Linux Journal, we examined the fundamental issues of real time with Linux. In this article we examine efforts to bring real-time capabilities to ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...