A definition for a CPU second?

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Published on 2010-05-05T08:10:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 8:18 UTC
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Hey, I'm totally behind this topic.

Yesterday I was doing profiling for some script I'm working on, and the unit for time spent was a 'CPU second'. Can anyone remind me with the definition of it?

For example for some profiling I got: 200.750 CPU seconds. What does that supposed to mean? At other case and for time consuming process I got: -347.977 CPU seconds, a negative number!

Is there anyway I can convert that time, to calendar time?

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