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sandeep1dimri

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:26 pm
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Hi!!

Why my same job is taking different CPU minutes ? I have not changed anything i just submited my job again. So for every run the CPU time is different .i Can understand that the variation in the elasped time but i m clueless abt the CPU time variation. Please let me have the solution of this variation.



Thanks in advance
Sandeep
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rajandhla

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:39 pm
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CPU time is allocated in slots not contigious. For High priority jobs cpu will be allocated first. It is one of the reason for as It varies every time
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sandeep1dimri

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:20 pm
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Hi Raj but in that case elaspased time should vary not the CPU time.
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Phrzby Phil

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:46 am
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Let's see your actual numbers.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:13 am
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Hello,

Is it possible that the content of the input file(s) have changed between runs?

If the input is on tape, is the same tape drive allocated for the runs that show different cpu times? If there was a lot of retry operations (temporary i/o errors) this may cause more cpu time to be required.

Does the clock time change as well as the cpu time?
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MFRASHEED

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:12 am
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I think there are lots of other factors which contribute to variation of CPU Time. And it not just on mainframes but other systems too, found one article which tries to explain the variation.

www.solarisinternals.com/si/reading/CMG98cpu.pdf
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