On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:10:45AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Please help with: Hello Dan, > User does ps aux to find out if he has any processes lying > around from yesterday that are stuck etc. > User sees erroneous start dates months off for all processes. > User has absolutely no way to find out when a process started. > See http://bugs.debian.org/842879 . I've read through the debian bug report and it seems to be filled with misconceptions and misinformation, but nevertheless, some basic information could be extracted. > If you can help, write me and I will give you an account > just like mine on the private server, so you can poke > around. > All I can do is create and delete accounts and reboot my > slice of the server. > I have no access to the underlying computer. Here is some information from the Linux-VServer side: - Uptime in a Linux-VServer guest can be virtualized. This is done by keeping a record when the guest started and subtracting this start time from all time values presented to processes inside the guest. - Depending on the kernel and the guest config, this virtualization can be present/enabled or not present or just disabled. - Chances are good, that the kernel/patch used on this system has incomplete virtualization in this regard which gives odd results. - Nothing can be done from inside the guest to fix this problem or enable this kind of virtualization. Changes have to be made on the host. Hope that clarifies, Herbert