Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:41, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Even with the 2.6.7 kernel, I'm still getting reports of process
> > > start times wandering. Here is an example:
> > > 
> > >    "About 12 hours since reboot to 2.6.7 there was already a
> > >    difference of about 7 seconds between the real start time
> > >    and the start time reported by ps. Now, 24 hours since reboot
> > >    the difference is 10 seconds."
> > > 
> > > The calculation used is:
> > > 
> > >    now - uptime + time_from_boot_to_process_start
> > 
> > Start-time and uptime is using different source. Looks like the
> > jiffies was added bogus lost counts.
> > 
> > quick hack. Does this change the behavior?
> 
> Where did this all end up?  Complaints about wandering start times are
> persistent, and it'd be nice to get some fix in place...

Yea, I think I dropped this. Not sure what the trouble is just yet. Let
me go digging. 

thanks
-john