Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:10:07 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: Timekeeping [Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c src/usr.bin/w w.c] Message-ID: <31030.1129914607@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:14:54 %2B0200." <435913FE.774C683D@freebsd.org>
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In message <435913FE.774C683D@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann writes: >> Again, if you have been sitting in DDB, what exactly is the definition >> of "uptime" ? > >IMO it's this: > > Uptime is the time the operating was available to present it's common > services to userland. That excludes any suspend and ddb times. Single > user mode however counts because the OS was servicing userland even if > there was only one user. Uptime is represented in SI seconds. I can live with this definition. So now we just need to be able to reliably measure the "not-uptime". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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