On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:48:14AM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 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: Does ps show the same sort of problems as well? Both top and ps have common code so I would expect this to be the case. ps <pid> will show this.
I'm not sure if you are talking about the default TIME+ column or something else. Let's pick on one PID on your setup, giving one process that looks "wrong", can you send me the output of: ps <PID> grep cpu /proc/stat cat /proc/uptime cat /proc/<PID>/stat preferably all done close together. >From all that I can work out what the kernel thinks the answers should be. I strongly suspect it is the kernel not giving the right answers but this will confirm it. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
