Re: 2.0.36 SMP time accounting

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Mon, 23 Nov 98 07:19 MET


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.981122130816.20998p-100000@tarkin.fdt.net> you write:
>Is this still considered "normal" for 2.0.x? I've got my dual P120
>running 2.0.36-SMP doing rc5.

This is a known bug. The idle time calculation s only correct for a
single CPU.

As I understand it, this cannot be fixed in the 2.0 kernel because it
would break some programs that rely on it. You can try to fix it by
changing fs/proc/array.c.

hjb

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