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Understanding the different clocks of clock_gettime()

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Hi I wanted to use the clock_gettime() function for measuring the performance of my code.

I am unable to understand the difference between the different kinds of clocks used in the function from the man page descriptions. esp

CLOCK_REALTIME,  CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID  CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID 

Can someone explaing what each of these clocks do?

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smilingbuddha Avatar asked Sep 21 '11 21:09

smilingbuddha


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CLOCK_REALTIME reports the actual wall clock time.

CLOCK_MONOTONIC is for measuring relative real time. It advances at the same rate as the actual flow of time but it's not subject to discontinuities from manual or automatic (NTP) adjustments to the system clock.

CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID is for measuring the amount of CPU time consumed by the process.

CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is for measuring the amount of CPU time consumed by the thread. It's supported by modern kernels and glibc since 2.6.12, but on older linux kernels glibc emulates it badly by simply returning the amount of CPU time consumed by the process since the moment the thread was created.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clock_gettime.2.html

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R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 13:10

R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE