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From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: [386BSD]ps reports wrong values (%CPU=-1, Start 23APR39)
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Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:29:27 GMT
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Hi,
I have applied the ps patch in unofficial/wiliams and still don't get
the "right" values from ps.
How do I know that they are wrong? There obvious.
1) ps -Cgaux reports some processes have a CPU usage of -1%. My machine isn't
anythig special, so I assume this is wrong.
2) ps -gaux reports all processes have a CPU and MEM usage of 0%.
3) ps -gaux reports that some processes start at incredible dates. eg 23APR39
I don't think there were many '386 DX boxes arround at this time, mine
certainly wasn't.
These bugs could make quite a story - 386BSD produced in 1939 was *so* quick
that the processes were often finished before they started, and they didn't
require any memory at all. - Anyone think it'll make a best seller? :-)
Back to the serious side of life. Are there fixes for these bugs, or do I have
to write them myself ;-).
Colin.
--
Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
"Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
-anon.