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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:23:46 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com
Subject:   Re: Spurious SIGXCPU
Message-ID:  <199806101323.XAA21805@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>> 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,
>>...
>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.

Apparently the background process makes it more likely for the foreground
process to appear to take a negative amount of time.

Another sign of the bug is that accounting for rapid context switches
is broken again:

	$ time ./fork-benchmark 10000
	        6.10 real         0.01 user         8.33 sys

Bruce

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