Your message dated Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:59:51 +0600
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and subject line Re: Bug#588769: top: prints nonsense times such as 5124095
hours
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regarding top: prints nonsense times such as 5124095 hours
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-9
Severity: normal
For some processes on my Linode VPS (in other words, a Xen guest), top
displays nonsense runtimes such as 5124095 hours. Attached is a gzipped
file produced by this command:
strace -e read,write -s 4096 top 2>top.strace
>From that file, you are supposed to read the contents of the relevant
proc files that ultimately lead to the incorrect readings. Search for
this line:
read(0, "T", 1) = 1
After it, you'll find that three pythons and rsyslogd were reported to
consume 5124095 hours.
The kernel is provided by linode, there is no supported way to change
that. If you find that in fact proc readings contain bogus values and
cannot reproduce this with a Debian kernel under your own copy of Xen -
please mark this bug as invalid.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.12-x86_64-linode12 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-9 scripts for initializing
and shutt
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc
file s
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
top.strace.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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Craig Small wrote:
> 1844394016732 and 280348245 are the user and system time the process has
> used, in jiffies.
> To know how many days, add these two numbers, divide by 200 to get
> seconds and then by (24 * 60 * 60) to get days.
> I get 106751 days.
OK, so we have invalid data from non-Debian kernel. No evidence against
any Debian package => closing the bug as invalid.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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