NordicHPC / sonar

Tool to profile usage of HPC resources by regularly probing processes using ps.
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Document logic behind cpu time measurement #166

Closed lars-t-hansen closed 2 months ago

lars-t-hansen commented 2 months ago

The reasoning behind bsdtime_ticks being the right value, and some of the pitfalls associated with it, are not documented in the code. Let's do so, because I just managed to confuse myself about that logic. For background, see https://github.com/NordicHPC/sonar/issues/68 and https://github.com/NordicHPC/sonar/pull/70.