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Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin




> On Dec 13, 2023, at 6:17 AM, Josh Moyer <JMoyer%nodomain.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> ...
> 
> See attached PNG.  The values in the CPU and WCPU columns don't sum up to
> the percentages in the CPU states line at the top of the display.  And
> the sum of the CPU status != 100.  This was happening in 9, too, but it
> might be worse now.

Floating point percentages not summing to exactly 100 is perfectly normal.  That's what you would expect given the approximate nature of floating point arithmetic, especially if you're looking at displayed values that are rounded to a smaller number of significant digits.

Do you have measurements that show clock drift under load?

	paul



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