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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:45:44 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Message-ID:  <20060125114544.edawx42obkkos0ck@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <28985.1138184101@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <28985.1138184101@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <20060125110927.dabpg50ls8o8gg4k@netchild.homeip.net>, 
> Alexander Lei
> dinger writes:
>
>> Are you going to fix those issues for machines which do power saving tricks
>> (which may even be useful on servers for some people, not only on laptops),
>> or do you not intend to further work on this besides the patches you present
>> here?
>
> My plan is to add some code to measure and record the maximum "cpu_tick"
> frequency we see, and use that to normalize the cpu accounting.
>
> That way, the user/system time reported will get units of "cpu seconds
> if the cpu ran full speed".

How large do you expect the error will be?

Bye,
Alexander.

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