From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 19 16:37:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29287 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d7.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29259 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:37:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03487; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:35:15 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808191635.QAA03487@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Pierre Beyssac cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unwanted sig24 problems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:31:49 +0200." <19980819173149.A21323@mars.hsc.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:35:14 +0000 From: Mike Smith 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. Ah. This sounds like the 'calcru: negative...' message. Looks like Poul has some more work to do still. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message