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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org,
	Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Timekeeping [Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c
 src/usr.bin/w w.c]
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In summary:  CLOCK_MONOTONIC is our best estimate of how many SI
>> seconds the system have been runing [3].
>
> Actual testing shows that CLOCK_MONOTONIC, or possibly CLOCK_REALTIME
> less the boot time, gives a very bad estimate of how long the system has
> been running.  The difference between these clocks was about 500 seconds
> on all systems tested:
>
> % sledge:
> %  1:03PM  up 22:45, 1 user, load averages: 0.23, 0.08, 0.02
> % uptime 1 81900
> % uptime 2 82887
> ...
> A large fairly machdine-independent differece is hard to explain.  I
> will reboot after sending this to see if one of the values is much
> larger than the uptime when the uptime is < 60 seconds.

Please ignore this.  It was a stupid bug.  After fixing the bug, there
were no differences.

Bruce