Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
temps machine
English translation:
CPU time/processor time
Added to glossary by
Didier Briel
Jul 15, 2007 09:00
16 yrs ago
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French term
temps machine
French to English
Bus/Financial
Computers: Systems, Networks
Servers
The definition below is taken from a glossary of terms included in a computer security training manual for a large firm. I thought 'temps machine' referred to 'running time', but can't see how it would make sense here. Perhaps someone could enlighten me? I would be most grateful - thanks in advance.
Serveur
Les serveurs sont généralement des ordinateurs puissants, qui gèrent l'espace mémoire, certaines tâches (p. ex. l'impression) ou le trafic sur un réseau. Ils fournissent des ressources, comme le ***temps machine***, les données ou les terminaux qui leur sont connectés. Les capacités de calcul sont donc exploitées au mieux et de nombreux utilisateurs peuvent faire appel aux services simultanément. Les serveurs Web, mail et FTP fournissent sur l'Internet la plupart des services essentiels auxquels les utilisateurs peuvent accéder au moyen de logiciels clients.
Serveur
Les serveurs sont généralement des ordinateurs puissants, qui gèrent l'espace mémoire, certaines tâches (p. ex. l'impression) ou le trafic sur un réseau. Ils fournissent des ressources, comme le ***temps machine***, les données ou les terminaux qui leur sont connectés. Les capacités de calcul sont donc exploitées au mieux et de nombreux utilisateurs peuvent faire appel aux services simultanément. Les serveurs Web, mail et FTP fournissent sur l'Internet la plupart des services essentiels auxquels les utilisateurs peuvent accéder au moyen de logiciels clients.
Proposed translations
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3 +3 | CPU time/processor time | Didier Briel |
3 +1 | machine time | Penny Hewson (X) |
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Jul 29, 2007 12:14: Didier Briel Created KOG entry
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CPU time/processor time
"temps machine" is the time actually used by the programs, compared to "idle time".
From Webopedia:
The amount of time the CPU is actually executing instructions. During the execution of most programs, the CPU sits idle much of the time while the computer fetches data from the keyboard or disk, or sends data to an output device. The CPU time of an executing program, therefore, is generally much less than the total execution time of the program. Multitasking operating systems take advantage of this by sharing the CPU among several programs.
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/Processor_H...
Processor Time bottlenecks are becoming rarer than memory bottlenecks.
From Webopedia:
The amount of time the CPU is actually executing instructions. During the execution of most programs, the CPU sits idle much of the time while the computer fetches data from the keyboard or disk, or sends data to an output device. The CPU time of an executing program, therefore, is generally much less than the total execution time of the program. Multitasking operating systems take advantage of this by sharing the CPU among several programs.
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/Processor_H...
Processor Time bottlenecks are becoming rarer than memory bottlenecks.
Reference:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CPU_time.html
http://www.dil.univ-mrs.fr/~gispert/enseignement/coursSysteme/AllocProcesseur.php
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veratek
: Agree. I am more familiar with these terms as well
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Kévin Bacquet
: Sounds more appropriate for computer science
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KLaQuadra
: Agree. Technically, CPU time is a point in time, while processor time is a period of time, often derived by subtracting a start CPU time from an end CPU time. But in everyday usage, CPU time is often used to mean processor time.
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machine time
Doesn't it just means machine time when people can use the facilities of the machine
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veratek
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime provides another definition. Server "machine time" can also be construed as the time the server is set to, which makes no sense here.
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christian landais
: yes. they also use run time
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