[Bug 859311] Re: Wrong cpu-time calculation for long-running multi-threaded processes

[Matthew L. Dailey]

Just a me too on this one. I ran into this on a 10.04.3 system with some
Matlab jobs that have been running for a couple of weeks.

# ps -f -C MATLAB
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
1234   21267 21256 99 Jan09 pts/3    1184016086-14:43:06 /opt/matlabR2011b/bin
1234   21578 21567 97 Jan09 pts/5    22-23:06:31 /opt/matlabR2011b/bin/glnxa64
1234   21688 21666 96 Jan09 pts/6    22-17:46:41 /opt/matlabR2011b/bin/glnxa64
1234   21786 21775 89 Jan09 pts/7    21-05:12:21 /opt/matlabR2011b/bin/glnxa64
1234   21884 21873 99 Jan09 pts/9    1184016084-11:35:28 /opt/matlabR2011b/bin

# cat /proc/21267/stat
21267 (MATLAB) S 21256 21267 21256 34819 21267 4202496 48728480602 10279 1 0 85619631648 4611685975611267009 16 1 20 0 49 0 176768180 3195682816 527162 18446744073709551615 4194304 4206714 140735315194304 140735315193832 140009299867740 0 134742022 0 151526638 18446744073709551615 0 0 17 15 0 0 0 0 0

# cat /proc/21884/stat
21884 (MATLAB) S 21873 21884 21873 34825 21884 4202496 47007338124 10280 1 0 85595226373 4611685975617266477 6 1 20 0 49 0 176794854 3336249344 558780 18446744073709551615 4194304 4206714 140734232928064 140734232927592 140313580697692 0 134742022 0 151526638 18446744073709551615 0 0 17 15 0 0 0 0 0

For what it's worth, htop seems to work properly and show the CPU usage
of these processes.

Here's some system info:

# uname -a
Linux myhost 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 20:32:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"

Let me know if any other info would be helpful while these jobs are
still running. :-)

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Title:
  Wrong cpu-time calculation for long-running multi-threaded processes

Status in “procps” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There seems to be a problem with the calculation of cpu-time for long-
  running multi-threaded processes. On a 2-way Xeon X5660 system, ps
  reports a cpu-time of 1184018577 days for a process that has been
  running for 5 days with 11 threads:

  ps -f -C ustacks                
  UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
  cul07b   13246 10866 99 Sep21 pts/0    1184018577-00:27:06 /home/cul07b/stacks/bin/ustacks -t fasta -f BN_pair1_mod.fasta -o ../results -i 2 -d -r -m 5 -M 2 -p 11

  The corresponding /proc/13246/stat file looks like this:
  13246 (ustacks) R 10866 10866 10861 34816 10866 4202496 2989827 0 0 0 85771819844 4611685996976182811 0 0 20 0 11 0 9806481 12440649728 2894242 18446744073709551615 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18446744073709551615 0 0 17 3 0 0 0 0 0

  top reports the same process with 0% cpu load although it is still running full-throttle with 11 threads:
  13246 cul07b    20   0 11.6g  11g 1412 R    0 23.4 178668,22 ustacks

  I saw similar issues with a process running for a couple of days with
  48 threads on a 4-way AMD Opteron 6172 system.

  I think the same bug has already been reported on bugs.debian.org:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641905

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: procps 1:3.2.8-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-32.62-server 2.6.32.38+drm33.16
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-32-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 26 11:32:31 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: procps

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