Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:12:33 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jdp@polstra.com, rb@gid.co.uk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spurious SIGXCPU Message-ID: <199806100912.TAA05983@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>Signal 24 is SIGXCPU (exceeded CPU time limit). Check your ulimit >>settings ("limit" if you use csh) and your login.conf setup. > ># limit >cputime unlimited >[etc] > >Checked that before showing my head above the parapet; and I did say >"Doesn't seem to be repeatable" :-) Apparently your process appeared to run for a negative amount of time. p_runtime is unsigned (64 bits), so negative runtimes are interpreted as huge runtimes, even huger than RLIMIT_INFINITY. This bug used to be avoided by using signed variables even to hold values that should be non-negative. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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