From 200a52a62100aeed7006fbbc9e19d6536c55b338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: malc Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:23:54 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Mention dyntick kernels --- README | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 8e390bd..ad3b95f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ aligned correctly, you will notice that something is wrong with what `/proc/stat' claims. Since most of the CPU monitoring applications use `/proc/stat' they will produce incorrect results too. +Note that dyntick kernels will most likely produce different but +nonetheless still incorrect accounting. + Kernel (starting with version 2.6.21) comes with a document describing the way accounting is currently done and problems with this approach (Documentation/cpu-load.txt) -- 2.11.4.GIT