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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@redhat.com>,
	"Luca Tettamanti" <kronos.it@gmail.com>,
	"Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for testing] Re: Decreasing stime running confuses top
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:49:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710051749.33381.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710042310.25223.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

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.

Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 12:33 top displaying 9999% CPU usage Frans Pop
2007-10-03 12:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-03 13:03 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-10-03 14:04   ` Frans Pop
2007-10-03 14:43     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-10-03 14:51       ` Ilpo Järvinen
2007-10-03 19:27         ` Decreasing stime running confuses top (was: top displaying 9999% CPU usage) Frans Pop
2007-10-03 20:24           ` Willy Tarreau
2007-10-03 23:32             ` Frans Pop
2007-10-04 19:19               ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-10-04 19:32                 ` Decreasing stime running confuses top Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 20:00                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-04 20:21                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 21:10                       ` [PATCH for testing] " Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-04 22:01                         ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 22:31                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-05 11:43                           ` Luca
2007-10-05 15:07                           ` Frans Pop
2007-10-05 15:49                         ` Frans Pop [this message]
2007-10-08 16:49                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-08 17:00                             ` Ingo Molnar

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