Bug#638555: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: CPU time overflows for long-running processes.

[James Tappin <jtappin@nso.edu>]

On Saturday 20 August 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This wouldn't entirely surprise me on a 32-bit kernel with 1000 Hz
> timer, but we don't build any kernel packages with that configuration.
>
> Which kernel did you actually find this on?

32 s >> uname -a
Linux solstice2 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 2011 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

> Please send contents of /proc/<pid>/stat for a process in this state.

Unfortunately  (from the point of view of this bug report), the job finished 
over the weekend, and I don't really expect to have a need to run it again 
(at least not for a while) and it ties up most of a compute server for a week 
and a half.

James