What is the meaning of 'real', 'user' and 'sys' in the output of time command.
Issue
- What is the meaning of
real,userandsysin the output of time command.
# time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=4096 iflag=direct
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 13.8631 s, 310 MB/s
real 0m13.867s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.330s
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux all versions
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