libgtop2 - wrong uptime calculation?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:48:40 +0100, Franz Klammer <klammer at webonaut.com> 
wrote:

> there is a problem with the new glibtop calculating the uptime (maybe 
> also the idle time).
>
> in my search for more speed/tuning my pc and my leaning towards 
> experiments ;-) i've
> added DEVICE_POLLING and HZ=1000 to my kernel conifg and added 
> kern.polling.enable=1
> to /etc/sysctl.conf. but i've found out this slows down my pc in a 
> dramatic manner.

I don't have any polling in here.

> a other effect of that journey was that gdesklets-sysinfo which gets the 
> uptime from libgtop
> shows me after a real uptime of 2:54 only 1:22.
>
> now i've remove all that stuff with the new effect that after a real 
> uptime of 31 minutes
> sysinfo shows me a uptime of 40 minutes.
>
> guess there is something wrong, or?

Yep, I have the same thing. There has few bugs in the libgtop, perhaps one 
of us should submit over to Gnome bugzilla?

Cheers,
Mezz

> franz.


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