On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
On 12/02/07, Vassili Karpov <[email protected]> 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
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