Re: sleep sleeping too long

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

> For instance, heavy I/O load.
> 
> Step by step explanation:
> 
>    date     - starts "date", prints time, exits
>    sleep 3  - starts "sleep", sleeps for 3 sec.
>    date     - waits for I/O (may wait any time, 5 sec isn't unusually long),
>               starts "date", prints time, exits


I don't see that in my case. (And system is very responsive.)

Better example:

tx:work$ time sleep 3 ; time sleep 5 ; time sleep 10
    6.81s real     0.00s user     0.01s system
    8.52s real     0.00s user     0.00s system
   25.84s real     0.01s user     0.00s system