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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:35:14 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unwanted sig24 problems? 
Message-ID:  <199808191635.QAA03487@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:49 %2B0200." <19980819173149.A21323@mars.hsc.fr> 

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> 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.

Ah.  This sounds like the 'calcru: negative...' message.   Looks like 
Poul has some more work to do still.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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