Re: [BUG] jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3

From: Stefano Brivio
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 13:09:57 EST


On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:56:57 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > It looks like the jiffies counter sometimes jumps back and forth of some
> > hundreds seconds in 2.6.24-rc3. I observed that this happens when I use
> > the su(1) command, e.g.:
>
> Can you please explain what exactly the problem is here?
>
> Are you perhaps referring to the number between square brackets for the su
> log lines? In that case there is no problem as in that case the number is
> not jiffies, but the process ID (PID) of the su process...

Sorry guy but I'm not _that_ idiot. Please notice jiffies values before and
after that.


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Ciao
Stefano
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