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    SubjectRe: boot time, process start time, and NOW time
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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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