swapper running forever -- anybody know why?

fair at ucbvax.UUCP fair at ucbvax.UUCP
Mon Oct 10 06:43:57 AEST 1983


Curtis,
	Check the way the system is incrementing u.u_stime in clock.c. It
may be that USG 5 doesn't disriminate between kernel mode activity and
idling (pc == waitloc, where waitloc is a location in idle()). If you want
actual activity noted, it should only increment u.u_stime when pc != waitloc.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair at ucb-arpa.ARPA
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