GWCheck: Overall Processing Time vs. Accumulated Task Processing Times

  • 7007217
  • 16-Nov-2010
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 8

Situation

The GWCheck log lists two differing times for processing a GWCheck job.

- Overall processing time for the entire job: 0:53:55
- Accumulated task processing times spent on the job: 3:31:34

Why is there a difference between the Overall Processing Time For the Entire Job and the Accumulated Task Processing Times Spent on the Job?

Resolution

To answer this question, please keep in mind that GWCheck is a multi-threaded program.

"Overall Processing Time For the Entire Job" - refers to the total time that the GWCheck program takes to run the job.

"Accumulated Task Processing Times Spent on the Job" - refers to the total time of all of the GWCheck threads combined.  It will be greater than or equal to the "Overall Processing Time For the Entire Job" depending on if GWCheck did or did not use multiple threads to run the job.