diff --git a/mercurial/configitems.py b/mercurial/configitems.py
index 4ab6e7b4fe8ac60873b4eeb3d26a5efd0e38b204_bWVyY3VyaWFsL2NvbmZpZ2l0ZW1zLnB5..db0dba2d157da7be9ef9364d9562f36da956af70_bWVyY3VyaWFsL2NvbmZpZ2l0ZW1zLnB5 100644
--- a/mercurial/configitems.py
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@
     default='hotpath',
 )
 coreconfigitem('profiling', 'time-track',
-    default='cpu',
+    default='real',
 )
 coreconfigitem('profiling', 'type',
     default='stat',