Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:46:14 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cputime limit exceeded Message-ID: <3835.898087574@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:49:02 %2B1000." <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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
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