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author | Baptiste Jonglez <git@bitsofnetworks.org> | 2016-09-05 22:02:40 +0200 |
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committer | Baptiste Jonglez <git@bitsofnetworks.org> | 2016-11-12 19:29:39 +0100 |
commit | a3d894000b7243e4bfd54f99de3bee8154827897 (patch) | |
tree | cb8870c2922315e1491763303ed084337ecc2020 /LICENSE.BSD | |
parent | 8b2638c349f780a0a66f6b4ef2430747d97bf24b (diff) |
Use a monotonic clock instead of a realtime clock
Using a realtime clock is a bad idea: it is affected by any kind of time
change, which can happen when the administrator modifies the system time,
or more simply when a laptop suspends to RAM and then wakes up from sleep.
With the current approach of using a realtime clock:
- if the system time jumps forward (e.g. when resuming after a
suspend-to-RAM), bmon would take 100% CPU and display random graph data
extremely fast, until it "catches up" with the new time.
- if the system time jumps backwards, bmon would freeze until *time*
"catches up" to the point it was before. bmon then (incorrectly)
displays a spike in the graph, because lots of packets have been
sent/received since the last update.
Instead of using gettimeofday(), switch to clock_gettime() with
CLOCK_MONOTONIC on systems that support it. OS X does not provide
clock_gettime(), so this commit also adds a Mach-specific implementation.
This change has been tested on Linux 4.1 with glibc and musl, and on
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p12.
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