Re: ps "time" field jumps backward

2010-02-07 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:45:01PM -0500, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Ideally, top and ps would total up all > > the per-thread CPU counts when displaying the per-process numbers, but it > > doesn't seem to. > It does seem to total them: > $

Re: ps "time" field jumps backward

2010-02-05 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > Ideally, top and ps would total up all > the per-thread CPU counts when displaying the per-process numbers, but it > doesn't seem to. It does seem to total them: $ ps axHo pid,lwp,time,wchan,comm | awk '$1 == 1647' 1647 100401 0:00.63 select

Re: ps "time" field jumps backward

2010-02-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 05), Linda Messerschmidt said: > For most of 7.2, on up to a 7.3-PRERELEASE built yesterday, I've noticed > that the "time" field reported by ps and top jumps around for some > processes. I've particularly noticed it with MySQL. > > Here are some repeated ps results (ps a

ps "time" field jumps backward

2010-02-05 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
Hi all, For most of 7.2, on up to a 7.3-PRERELEASE built yesterday, I've noticed that the "time" field reported by ps and top jumps around for some processes. I've particularly noticed it with MySQL. Here are some repeated ps results (ps axo pid,time,wchan,comm) for the same process over a few m