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

[Andrew Morton]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Albert Cahalan <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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...

Thanks.
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