Re: Process start times moving in reverse on 2.6.8.1

Andrew Morton
2004-10-04T23:31:41Z

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.