Re: Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Tom Burns wrote: > That would be great if you could find that patch - I can worry about > porting it to the current kernel. We're having an issue where our > device, while routing large amounts of network traffic, reports 0% CPU > utilisation when it cannot be the case, and I

Re: Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 17:24, you wrote: > The bug described back in 2004 in the following message still seems to exist: > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-05/4313.html > > Essentially, it appears that if a process sleeps before it uses up a > complete jiffy then no cha

Re: Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Burns
Hi Tim. That would be great if you could find that patch - I can worry about porting it to the current kernel. We're having an issue where our device, while routing large amounts of network traffic, reports 0% CPU utilisation when it cannot be the case, and I think this is the cause. Cheers, To

Re: Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Tom Burns wrote: > The bug described back in 2004 in the following message still seems to exist: > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-05/4313.html > > Essentially, it appears that if a process sleeps before it uses up a > complete jiffy then no charge is

Re: Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Burns
Problem also verified to exist on kernel: 2.6.17-5mdv #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:28:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GNU/Linux Cheers, Tom Burns On 1/30/07, Tom Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bug described back in 2004 in the following message still seems to ex

Bug: 2.6.15 Process accounting fails to account for small time slice loads (still)

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Burns
The bug described back in 2004 in the following message still seems to exist: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-05/4313.html Essentially, it appears that if a process sleeps before it uses up a complete jiffy then no charge is made to its process accounting table. This proble