Re: /proc/stat interface and 32bit jiffies / kernel_stat

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 00:34:32 EST


> "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.
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