[resending - forgot to CC: the bug] Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:48:14AM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > For some processes on my Linode VPS (in other words, a Xen guest), top > > displays nonsense runtimes such as 5124095 hours. Attached is a gzipped > > file produced by this command: > Does ps show the same sort of problems as well? Both top and ps have > common code so I would expect this to be the case. ps <pid> will show > this. > > I'm not sure if you are talking about the default TIME+ column or > something else.
Yes, I am talking about TIME+, which contains "5124095h" for all four "wrong" processes and sensible values for everything else. > Let's pick on one PID on your setup, giving one process that looks > "wrong", can you send me the output of: $ ps 8878 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 8878 ? S 21114574:25 python /usr/share/pyshared/trac/web/fcgi_fronten $ grep cpu /proc/stat cpu 497530 5241 284260 1375355973 201909 17 4756 19904 0 cpu0 152371 32 65340 343647977 59630 3 1568 7938 0 cpu1 156532 552 118676 343704589 79651 9 2066 5001 0 cpu2 97858 4317 40152 344016921 40194 3 844 4040 0 cpu3 90769 339 60091 343986484 22432 1 277 2924 0 $ cat /proc/uptime 1721865.10 13753609.46 $ cat /proc/8878/stat 8878 (python) S 8866 8865 8865 0 -1 4202496 7038 0 0 0 1844394016732 280348245 0 0 20 0 1 0 130606738 219033600 5560 18446744073709551615 4194304 6410804 0 0 0 0 0 16781312 16387 18446744073709551615 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

