On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Neither ps nor top report the correct amount of time used on an SMP
> (procps-2.0.2 as delivered with RedHat 6.0). Instead, they report 1/Nth of the
> time used, where N is the number of CPU's. This is a libproc.so problem. The
> bug is that init_Hertz_value() in procps-2.0.2/proc/sysinfo.c calculates the
> Hertz value as "Total number of Jiffies SInce Boot" / "Number of Seconds since
> Boot". On an N processor machine you can get N*clock_interrupt rate Jiffies per
> second. So on a 4-way Intel system, init_Hertz_value() incorrectly sets Hertz
> to 400, as can be verified by doing a ps --info. The correct value should be
> 100, since a process can only be run on one cpu at a time. The fix is to divide
> the ratio above by the number of CPU's. The kernel I am using is 2.2.9, but
> that is pretty much irrelevent here, I think.
Are you not using the SMP patch for procps? It seems to work fine
here on my dual PII-350 with kernel 2.2.9..
G
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