Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:49:49 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:41, Andrew Morton wrote: > OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote: > > > > Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> writes: > > > > > Even with the 2.6.7 kernel, I'm still getting reports of process > > > start times wandering. Here is an example: > > > > > > "About 12 hours since reboot to 2.6.7 there was already a > > > difference of about 7 seconds between the real start time > > > and the start time reported by ps. Now, 24 hours since reboot > > > the difference is 10 seconds." > > > > > > The calculation used is: > > > > > > now - uptime + time_from_boot_to_process_start > > > > Start-time and uptime is using different source. Looks like the > > jiffies was added bogus lost counts. > > > > quick hack. Does this change the behavior? > > Where did this all end up? Complaints about wandering start times are > persistent, and it'd be nice to get some fix in place...
Yea, I think I dropped this. Not sure what the trouble is just yet. Let me go digging.
thanks -john
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