From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 13 2:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5D014D5D for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22628; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:53:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA10931; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:53:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jared Mauch Cc: "Serguei V. Melekhov" , "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: /Kernel Calcru In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:24:50 EDT." <19990408132450.J11653@puck.nether.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:53:50 +0200 Message-ID: <10929.923997230@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please look in the FAQ. Poul-Henning In message <19990408132450.J11653@puck.nether.net>, Jared Mauch writes: > It's a calculation of cpu time the process has used. > > Somewhere there was a math error, causing a negative time >to appear. > > I get thousands of these on some of my servers: > >eg: >calcru: negative time of -12177441 usec for pid 1420 (cucipop) > > etc.. > > I've not seen it be of any harm, but it may be >somehow that i'm not aware of. > > >On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:20:01PM +0400, Serguei V. Melekhov wrote: >> Hello, >> Sorry for the dumb question. Just don't know what does that mean? >> Apr 8 09:09:09 mail /kernel: calcru: negative time: -478 usec >> Anyway, Time plays no role here. Just this kernel calcru message?! >> >> Thanks in advance. > >-- >Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net >clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message