Re: Memory: measuring 5 limitations

From: James Willmore (jwillmore_at_remove.adelphia.net)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:50:50 GMT

On 11 Dec 2003 02:44:38 -0800
bart@nijlen.com (Bart Van der Donck) wrote:
> James Willmore wrote:
>
> > *If* you have shell access, you *may* be able to use
> > 'time "name of script here"'.
> > This will give you information about the execution of the script.
> > Not Perl, but it will give you more information than what you're
> > getting now.
>
> Yeah I have shell access and I can execute the time command.
>
> The output of 'time "script.cgi"' is:
> script.cgi: command not found

[Sigh}

I hate trying to type in what a command should look like - because it
always seems to be mis-interpreted.

You don't need the double quotes around the command you're trying to
execute. For example:

jim@maxine:~> time ls
[lots of output from the ls command]

real 0m0.564s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.000s
jim@maxine:~>

If you can execute your script *without* typing in perl at the
beginning, then you have a script that can be executed. If not, then
you have your permissions set wrong - which looks like the case here.

> However the output format looks great and I believe that it is what
> I need:
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> Am I missing something?

I haven't seen output like that from 'time' before. At least, not on
a Linux system. What OS is your host using?

The "workaround" I gave was for a *INX system - I should have been
specific about that. Sorry :-(

I'm thinking you may want to contact your host to see what solutions
they may have. We're starting to get away from Perl on this issue.

Last resort - shop around for a host that has the functionality you're
looking for - and read up a little more on using Perl through CGI.
Google is an excellent place to start - because there have been *many*
questions asked about using Perl through CGI asked and answered in
this and other newsgroups.

HTH 

-- 
Jim
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