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and subject line ps process start times
has caused the Debian Bug report #408879,
regarding [ps] process start times fluctuate
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.1-2
Severity: normal
File: /bin/ps
We use ntpd to keep time synced. Then somehow the machine uses two times,
a "good" one set by ntpd, and an "internal drifted" one that should never
be shown. Confusingly, ps shows the "wrong" START time:
psz@pisa:~$ date
Mon Jan 29 08:47:40 EST 2007
psz@pisa:~$ last -1
psz pts/6 y622.yt.maths.us Mon Jan 29 08:46 still logged in
wtmp begins Mon Jan 1 08:54:56 2007
psz@pisa:~$ ps aux | grep -E 'psz|USER'
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
psz 14608 0.0 0.0 8568 2896 ? S 08:33 0:00 xterm -font 9x15
-bg #ffdab9 -fg black -T psz@pisa -n psz@pisa -sb -sl 10000 -ls
psz 14611 0.0 0.0 2568 1436 pts/6 Ss 08:33 0:00 -bash
psz 14626 0.0 0.0 1548 472 pts/6 S+ 08:34 0:00 grep -E psz|USER
psz 14627 0.0 0.0 2496 848 pts/6 R+ 08:34 0:00 ps aux
psz@pisa:~$
Cheers,
Paul Szabo [email protected] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-spm1.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
-- no debconf information
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Hi,
This is a really old bug about ps start times.
There has been a lot of changes with hardware, kernels
and procps itself so I'm closing this bug.
If it does still occur on current systems, we can
reopen it or open another, but I'd say its fixed
due to the update of those three things.
- Craig
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