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| author | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2021-05-03 13:33:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com> | 2021-05-03 13:33:16 +0200 |
| commit | 4d30272e3de81a0c4244143595284e040cfb070f (patch) | |
| tree | be800c8d557f05b340479d11b8d897ba4a9c2b21 /docs | |
| parent | b035d1f8f3bd4cea7a0a7817c21ef161f2bb2fd7 (diff) | |
| download | psutil-4d30272e3de81a0c4244143595284e040cfb070f.tar.gz | |
Re. #1210: add doc warning explaining that cpu_times() values can sometimes go backwards
Signed-off-by: Giampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 079b313c..a884ec80 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ CPU .. versionchanged:: 4.1.0 added *interrupt* and *dpc* fields on Windows. + .. warning:: + CPU times are always supposed to increase over time, or at least remain + the same, and that's because time cannot go backwards. + Surprisingly sometimes this might not be the case (at least on Windows + and Linux), see `#1210 <https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1210#issuecomment-363046156>`__. + .. function:: cpu_percent(interval=None, percpu=False) Return a float representing the current system-wide CPU utilization as a |