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I don't know if this will rememdy the problem, but you should upgrade your libc to 5.4.17 immediately, if not sooner ;> aside from POSSIBLY remedying this problem, it fixes some security bugs, and a lot of other stuff. :> -Rob On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Chris Griffin wrote: > I have been running some fairly demainding programs on my Dual PPro 200 > linux box lately and it is great! I am using calles to times() to try to > get CPU time usage so I can benchmark it against some other platforms I > work on. The only problem is that when SMP is enabled I get some fairly > strange times. Sometimes all the time will be system time, other times > it will all be user time, and as you might have guessed, all combinations > in-between. If I run this program 5 times, I will get 5 different > combinations, but they will always add up to the same number Even stranger, > when I run 2 programs at once, and then look at the output with top, the > USER CPU is 99% and the system CPU is at 101%. I assume this has to do > with the fact that I have 2 processors TICKing away. Is this a bug in > the kernel, C libraries, or just an eventuality that hasn't been taken > care of yet? In the mean time, does anyone know a way to fix this > behavior? I am using gcc2.7.2, libc5.3.12, procps 1.01 and linux 2.0.27. > > Thanks a lot! > Chris > > | ||||||||||||
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