From: Vassili Karpov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Describes how/when the information exported to `/proc/stat' is calculated,
and possible problems with this approach.
Signed-off-by: Vassili Karpov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-load.txt b/Documentation/cpu-load.txt
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Hi there,
We think we might have encountered a problem with the cpu load
calculation in Linux (2.2.x). The current calculation is based on
dividing the jiffies to user, system and idle jiffies according to the
process the timer hardware interrupt interrupts.
In our case the timer interrupt
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