From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-limenau.DE,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de
Subject: Re: /proc/stat interface and 32bit jiffies / kernel_stat
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:34:32 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211180534.gAI5YWw237230@saturn.cs.uml.edu> (raw)
> "ps" will report processes started before the jiffies wrap
> as being started in the future, but this won't do any harm.
Sure it does harm. You might kill the wrong process,
like so:
pgrep -n foo # kill the newest foo
The CPU usage stats in "top" will also be horribly messed up.
next reply other threads:[~2002-11-18 5:28 UTC|newest]
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2002-11-18 5:34 Albert D. Cahalan [this message]
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2002-11-15 14:22 Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2002-11-15 15:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-15 16:17 ` Tim Schmielau
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