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Subject: Re: UPTIME - linStat vs. iocAdmin
From: Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: David Bracey <dbracey at fnal.gov>
Cc: "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:39:44 -0700
On 6/18/26 9:37 AM, David Bracey via Tech-talk wrote:
It looks to me like iocAdmin (iocStats) does UPTIME as time since the IOC process started, but linStat does UPTIME as time since the platform was booted (it's looking at /proc/uptime?).

Do I have this right?  It would be an important difference for us.

If you update to linStat >= 1.2.0 this difference should go away.

https://github.com/mdavidsaver/linStat/issues/8

https://github.com/mdavidsaver/linStat/commit/6efa77d7939528f4623c75164737a38c4309f169


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