Closed Bug 1753310 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Process CPU times shown in about:processes are dramatically underestimated on M1 Macs

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(Toolkit :: Performance Monitoring, defect)

defect

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RESOLVED FIXED
98 Branch
Tracking Status
firefox98 --- fixed

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(Reporter: florian, Assigned: florian)

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The % of CPU use of processes is almost always < 1% on my M1 Macbook, despite some threads of the process using more than 10% of a core.

Thankfully others have already figured this out. The pti.pti_total_user and pti.pti_total_system values returned by the proc_pidinfo / PROC_PIDTASKINFO are expressed in system ticks, rather than in nanoseconds. The mach_timebase_info function needs to be called to convert to nanoseconds.

On Macs with Intel CPUs, mach_timebase_info returns 1. On M1 CPUs, the result is 125/3.

Blocks: 1707748
Pushed by fqueze@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/61491ef8a39c
Fix process CPU times reported by about:processes, r=gerald.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 98 Branch
Depends on: 1754012
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