From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Process start times moving in reverse on 2.6.8.1
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:35:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041004163511.5624c52c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041004190054.GA29409@linuxace.com>
Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> wrote:
>
> ISTR discussion on the mailing list about this problem,
> and recently upgraded from 2.6.3 to 2.6.8.1 to hopefully
> solve it, but alas the problem still exists.
>
> Example:
>
> # date ; ps -ef | grep ps | grep -v grep
> Mon Oct 4 14:53:39 EDT 2004
> root 29412 29351 0 14:51 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef
>
> Notice the two minute difference between now and what the
> process start time is. Uptime on this box is 48 days, so
> it is a gradual drift.
>
> Any ideas on this? Or has it been fixed since 2.6.8.1?
It's allegedly fixed by
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc3/2.6.9-rc3-mm2/broken-out/fix-process-start-times.patch
but I've seen no confirmation of that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 19:00 Process start times moving in reverse on 2.6.8.1 Phil Oester
2004-10-04 23:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-07 22:06 ` Phil Oester
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