Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for testing] Re: Decreasing stime running confuses top | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:49:32 +0200 |
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On Thursday 04 October 2007, you wrote: > Frans can you test this patch if this makes stime and utime monotic > again? > > It basically reverts the rest of > b27f03d4bdc145a09fb7b0c0e004b29f1ee555fa and should restore the 2.6.22 > behavior. The process time is used from tasks utime and stime instead of > the scheduler clock. That means, in general after a long period of time, > it is less accurate than the current time and behaves like 2.6.22. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Yes, this gives steady increases. For kontact it also again shows updates only once every minute. I really wonder where all the other fluctuations for contact come from with the alternative code.
It seems to me that this patch would be the best option for 2.6.23.
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