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The time Command (cont)

What other resources it measures:
  • elapsed time
    difference in wall-clock time between when the program started and finished
  • % machine share
    what percentage of processor time was dedicated to the process during execution
  • memory usage
    maximum amount of memory space occupied by the process
  • i/o statistics
    how much disk traffic the program generated
Note: not all systems measure all resource usages.