The differences you're seeing ... some are lag-time as changes get
rolled into the kernel and utilities, but others may be variances from
a standard. (or lag-time in keeping up with the standard)
Standard ... is there? Why ... yes, there is!
"The Linux Standard Base was created
to lower the overall costs of supporting the Linux platform.
By reducing the differences between individual Linux distributions,
the LSB greatly reduces the costs involved with porting applications
to different distributions, as well as lowers the cost and effort
involved in after-market support of those applications."
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb
And it appears that IBM, SuSE, and RedHat are all supporting members of the LF.
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> James, Emmett,
>
> Thanks for the replies. Good to know that an older and a new RHEL seem to
> come up with the right answer (I assume you both have 2 vCPUs).
>
> Just to be sure, I tried again on my reference system, and got similar
> results:
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
> # ./getticks
> getting one set of data
> sleeping 5 seconds and getting another set of data
> statOut1 = cpu 13191 57057 57033 4 0 2781 3194 3158 0
> statOut2 = cpu 13191 57057 57033 4 0 2781 3194 3158 0
> nums1 = 13191+57057+57033+4+0+2781+3194+3158+0
> nums2 = 13191+57057+57033+4+0+2781+3194+3158+0
> totalTicks = 0
>
>
> "Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com>
>
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