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From: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU load
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:54:25 +0300 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702120849310.903@home.oyster.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8cd998d50702112144y38958d27saec4196f6f5d5236@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:

> On 12/02/07, Vassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:

[..snip..]

> The kernel looks at what is using cpu _only_ during the timer
> interrupt. Which means if your HZ is 1000 it looks at what is running
> at precisely the moment those 1000 timer ticks occur. It is
> theoretically possible using this measurement system to use >99% cpu
> and record 0 usage if you time your cpu usage properly. It gets even
> more inaccurate at lower HZ values for the same reason.

Thank you very much. This somewhat contradicts what i saw (and outlined
in usnet article), namely the mplayer+/dev/rtc case. Unless ofcourse
/dev/rtc interrupt is considered to be the same as the interrupt from
PIT (on X86 that is)

P.S. Perhaps it worth documenting this in the documentation? I caused
      me, and perhaps quite a few other people, a great deal of pain and
      frustration.

-- 
vale

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-12  5:33 Vassili Karpov
2007-02-12  5:44 ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-12  5:54   ` malc [this message]
2007-02-12  6:12     ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-12  7:10       ` malc
2007-02-12  7:29         ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-12  5:55   ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-02-12  6:08     ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-12 14:32   ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-13 22:01     ` malc
2007-02-13 22:08       ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-14  7:28         ` malc
2007-02-14  8:09           ` Con Kolivas
2007-02-14 20:45           ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-25 10:35             ` malc
2007-02-26  9:28               ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-26 10:42                 ` malc
2007-02-26 16:38                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-12 18:05   ` malc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-12 16:57 Andrew Burgess
2007-02-12 18:15 ` malc
2002-07-10 14:50 David Chow
2002-07-10 16:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-10 17:49   ` Robert Love
2002-07-26 17:38     ` David Chow

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