From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 17 05:49:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14962 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 05:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (static226.conference.usenix.org [204.119.186.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14957 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03837; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:46:15 +0200 (CEST) To: Bruce Evans cc: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cputime limit exceeded In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:49:02 +1000." <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:46:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3835.898087574@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>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. ... but we promise to fix this, if somebody can prove that it is a problem for them (don't laugh, it could be on vastly parallel machines). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message