Re: Broken process startup times after suspend (regression)

Pavel Machek
2007-05-11T12:29:08Z

Hi!

> >Indeed. The monotonic clock's behavior around suspend
> >and resume
> >is poorly defined. When we increased it, folks didn't
> >like the
> >fact that uptime would increase while a system was
> >suspended.
>
> The uptime really does need to increase during suspend.
> Otherwise,
> things get really weird with devices like the OLPC XO
> which will be
> sleeping between keystrokes. You could run the device
> for hours,
> yet get an uptime of only a few minutes. Suspended time
> should get
> counted as stolen time, same as when a hypervisor takes
> away time.

Yes, please. Just revert the offending patches, we don't want another
/proc/stat field.
Pavel
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