I think I just found part of the answer. It seems these are threads that are
started by Java internally, "ps -eLf" shows these processes. So next
question: Is there a way to get this relation programmatically? I.e. find
out that pid 8328 is actually a thread of process id 8313?

Thanks... Dominik.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Dominik Stadler <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to work on a patch for powertop to display the wakeups per process
> so that I can distinguish between multiple running processes with the same
> name (e.g. java). This would be useful if more than one process is running
> with the same name, but the wakeups for one specific process are interesting
> for debugging. However I have some trouble with the pid that is listed in
> the timer_stats file in my case:
>
> For example I have one java application running, which ps shows as having
> pid "8313", however this pid is not showing up in /proc/timer_stats at all,
> but rather a number of pids in the same range show up, but none of these map
> to any running process and the one process that I am looking for does not
> show up at all:
>
> $ cat /proc/timer_stats | grep java
>   197,  8326 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>   246,  8347 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>    65,  8368 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>    20,  8328 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>    19,  8344 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>     9,  8317 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>     9,  8354 java             hrtimer_start_range_ns (hrtimer_wakeup)
>
> Anybody knows how this maps to the java process with pid "8313"? Is this
> caused by internals of the java implementation? Or rather some effect of how
> timer_stats are reported?
>
> Kernel is 2.6.31 from Ubuntu plus TuxOnIce compiled for amd64
> Linux distro is Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
>
> Thanks... Dominik.
>
>
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