From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 10 05:22:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14544 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 05:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14526 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 05:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id NAA27133; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:21:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:13:21 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199806101058.UAA14492@cimlogic.com.au> References: from Bob Bishop at "Jun 10, 98 11:28:11 am" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:19:57 +0100 To: John Birrell From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Spurious SIGXCPU Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:58 pm +1000 10/6/98, John Birrell wrote: >Bob Bishop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> You wouldn't perchance happen to be running anything CPU-intensive in the >> background, nice'd right down? > >Not in the background, but the foreground process is both CPU intensive >and long lived. It's a build program that checks out RCS files, >parses sources, conditionally complies and links, automatically executes >tests - all from a single execution. I've seen this die a few times due to >sig 24. I've just started it after a make world and a kernel build. It >discovers the kernel and compiler/linker are new so it recompiles and >retests everything. Hmm. I'm running an RC5 client permanently in the background at nice 19 that soaks up all the unused CPU. Never seen that fail itself though. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message