2.6.32-41-generic-pae #88-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 29 14:24:36 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/493156 Time in seconds: 82 real 1m21.484s user 0m42.119s sys 0m36.194s Time in seconds: 82 real 1m21.484s user 0m42.119s sys 0m36.194s Time in seconds: 81 real 1m20.226s user 0m41.947s sys 0m36.178s Time in seconds: 81 real 1m20.932s user 0m41.979s sys 0m36.206s Time in seconds: 80 real 1m20.467s user 0m42.271s sys 0m36.186s Time in seconds: 76 real 1m16.925s user 0m38.786s sys 0m36.210s Time in seconds: 79 real 1m19.599s user 0m41.463s sys 0m36.202s linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-41-generic-pae root=UUID=6d6f3fb2-dcab-4ca0-8556-59eaa6b2fbfd ro quiet splash delayacct sudo gedit /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash delayacct" ## this is the line to update in /etc/default/grub # If you change /etc/default/grub , run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. update-grub Time in seconds: 80 real 1m19.247s user 0m39.946s sys 0m36.258s Time in seconds: 78 real 1m17.809s user 0m39.418s sys 0m36.206s Time in seconds: 80 real 1m19.806s user 0m41.591s sys 0m36.230s Time in seconds: 80 real 1m20.279s user 0m42.115s sys 0m36.234s Time in seconds: 80 real 1m19.800s user 0m41.615s sys 0m36.246s Time in seconds: 79 real 1m18.918s user 0m40.615s sys 0m36.222s Time in seconds: 80 real 1m20.285s user 0m42.083s sys 0m36.274s Time in seconds: 79 real 1m19.823s user 0m41.671s sys 0m36.218s script run ::: sourcefile:: cat LOLTEST1.bash # Get time as a UNIX timestamp (seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970 0:00 UTC) T="$(date +%s)" # Do some work here sleep 2 mkdir output/ cd output test () { dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.out bs=1M count=7 dd if=/dev/zero of=test2.out bs=1M count=11 dd if=/dev/zero of=test3.out bs=1M count=18 dd if=/dev/zero of=test4.out bs=1M count=9 dd if=/dev/zero of=test5.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/zero of=test6.out bs=1M count=9 dd if=/dev/zero of=test7.out bs=1M count=1 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test8.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test9.out bs=1M count=1 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test10.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test11.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test12.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test13.out bs=1M count=4 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test14.out bs=1M count=44 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test15.out bs=1M count=8 dd if=/dev/urandom of=test16.out bs=1M count=2 echo Hey I am here. echo Now exiting function. } test grep nich -i * rm test*.out test grep nich -i * rm test*.out test grep nich -i * rm test*.out T="$(($(date +%s)-T))" echo "Time in seconds: ${T}"