On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 14:09 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 02:55:00PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 19:10 +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > > This is rather strange; any ideas from DSA? > > > > The underlying hosts do not have the same issue. > > > > All of the guests use the same virtual CPU version/flags. > > > > All of the guests use the same Linux kernel version. > > Thanks for the update. > > > I guess diving into the Linux implementation of times(2) for clues would > > be the next step for figuring out what the issue is here. > > I'm taking the kernel maintainers in the loop. The status here is that > times(2) seems to be misbehaving on some i386 and amd64 debian.org virtual > hosts running jessie (under ganeti/qemu, with jessie on the underlying > hosts too). These hosts include at least barriere and x86-grnet-01. > > The misbehaviour is that user time stays at zero all the time, as seen > for example with 'time yes'. This is making perl fail to build from > source due to test failures, and I'd expect it to affect other things too. > > Any help is appreciated.
I can't reproduce this, but wonder if it's related to #784960? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
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