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Revision: 533
Author:   

Date:     Thu Aug 25 02:12:00 2011
Log:      Added description of the cputime trace.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=533

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Wed Aug 24 10:09:36 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Thu Aug 25 02:12:00 2011
@@ -102,7 +102,18 @@

 ===cputime trace===

-This file contains lines with `times` routine results recorded using a  
100ms interval.
+Writing cputime file is enabled by `--cputime` option.
+
+This file contains lines with `times` routine results recorded using a  
100ms interval. Each of the lines contains the following data separated by  
a single space in this order:
+
+|| *#* || *Name* || *Description/Comment* ||
+|| 1. || time || seconds from the beginning of the test ||
+|| 2. || user time || contains  the  CPU  time spent executing  
instructions of the calling process ||
+|| 3. || system time || contains the CPU time spent in the system while  
executing tasks on behalf of the calling proces ||
+|| 4. || user time of the children || contains the sum of the user time  
and user time of the children values for all waited-for terminated children  
||
+|| 5. || system time of the children || contains the sum of the system  
time and system time of the children values for all waited-for terminated  
children ||
+
+All times reported are in clock ticks.

 ===meta data file===