Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:49:02 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cputime limit exceeded Message-ID: <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > Anyone have a fix for the above? It seems to happen just after >> > a "calcru: negative time of -xxxxxxxx usec for pid yyy (zzzz)" >> > error. Negative times are now interpreted as huge positive times (of about 580000 years). Negative times can't happen :-). >> Hmmm.... make sure you know what login class the processes being killed >> belong to (see limits(1)) and then hack /etc/login.conf to be more >> friendly to them. > >No, they run as root which has unlimited cputime (that was the first thing >I checked!). The reason why I posted was that I remembered some discussion Root actually has a limit of only about 290 thousand years. It used to be about 290 billion years, but conversion from seconds to microseconds now reduces its range by a factor of 10^6. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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