Hi!
> Just how would you do kernel/user CPU time accounting then ? It's currently done
> on every timer tick, and doing it less often would make it useless.
Except for machines with very slow timers we really should account time
to processes during context switch instead of sampling on timer ticks.
The current values are in many situations (i.e., lots of processes
or a process frequently waiting for events bound to timer) a pile
of random numbers.
Have a nice fortnight
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