From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 18 18:16:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20683 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 18:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20676 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 18:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-151.camalott.com [208.229.74.151] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA22288; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:15:10 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05110; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:15:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:15:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806190115.UAA05110@detlev.UUCP> To: bde@zeta.org.au CC: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:49:02 +1000) Subject: Re: Cputime limit exceeded From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199806170649.QAA09080@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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. The only known time that root has exceeded this limit happened to be while typing in an motd asking users to please log out their idle terminals. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message