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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:40:10 GMT
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/153674: i386/XEN idle thread shows wrong percentages
Message-ID:  <201101041540.p04FeAiw029834@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/153674; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, flo@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/153674: i386/XEN idle thread shows wrong percentages
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:31:16 -0800

 FWIW, this sounds to me like the kernel scheduler is getting confused in its
 accounting; possibly due to "stolen" time (when the hypervisor is off running
 other instances) and possibly related to the clock-interrupts-getting-lost
 bug (kern/153620).
 
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 Colin Percival
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