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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:23:44PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Um, would this be considered a security flaw, since process time
> limits likely aren't being enforced?

The time counts up, but the CPU% doesn't.  I'm reduced to "ps -p ;
sleep 10 ; ps -p" and doing the subtraction in my head to try and
back-of-the-envelope guess how much CPU e.g. Firefox is using.

It's not a showstopper or anything, but it's _really_ annoying, and
we're on our second -STABLE major version doing it.  It's one of my
least favorite bits to try and explain to somebody.


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