Bug 69625

Summary:	process start time is wrong on SMP systems.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	procps	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	dkl, grumple, ronald, strovato
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-07-23 20:44:58 UTC

In Limbo and Limbo+up2date ps shows the start time (columns
lstart,start,start_time) way into the future on SMP systems.

% ps -eo pid,user,lstart,args |tail -4; date; uptime
24272 alexei   Sun Aug 11 11:35:27 2002 /usr/bin/imapd Maildir
24498 alexei   Sun Aug 11 13:53:34 2002 bash
24828 alexei   Sun Aug 11 14:10:34 2002 ps -eo pid,user,lstart,args
24829 alexei   Sun Aug 11 14:10:34 2002 tail -4
Tue Jul 23 16:42:36 EDT 2002
  4:42pm  up 2 days,  1:04,  7 users,  load average: 1.39, 1.30, 0.83

This is re-occurence of bug 4554 (so I copied the CC list).

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2002-07-24 01:07:34 UTC

This was a kernel bug. It is fixed in the latest kernel in rawhide.