From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 19 08:32:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02093 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02067 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pb@hsc.fr) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5/itesec-1.12-nospam) with ESMTP id RAA03012; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8/pb-19980526) id RAA21401; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb) Message-ID: <19980819173149.A21323@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:49 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unwanted sig24 problems? References: <199808182105.VAA03757@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: <199808182105.VAA03757@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:05:03PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:05:03PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > An odd one here; I recently reinstalled -current on my laptop, and with > a kernel built this morning I am getting (important) processes killed > with SIGXCPU. (eg. the X server). I start the server by hand, and I'm Many (maybe half a dozen) persons have reported similar problems on this list since about June; I'm having it sometimes in make world, and it's not a resource limit problem. I'm running xntpd; somehow it seems the problem occur less frequently when stopping xntpd. I haven't tried recent kernels yet. > So I'm fairly happy this isn't a resource configuration problem. Any > ideas? (Very irritating this is. 8( ) IIRC, it was because the process CPU time becomes negative. Since it's an unsigned integer, it's over even the "unlimited" limit and the process is killed. Nobody seems to know exactly _why_ it becomes negative though. -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message