Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:54:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unwanted sig24 problems? Message-ID: <199808192154.WAA17907@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:05:03 -0000." <199808182105.VAA03757@dingo.cdrom.com>
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The only way this can be happening AFAICT is if the value pointed at
by the global ``timecounter'' is fluctuating (going backwards)....
Does making ``struct timecounter *timecounter'' volatile in
kern_clock.c help ? I can't tell 'cos the machine that I got this
problem with was given back....
> 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
> also seeing user processes (emacs, exmh, anything long-lived and busy)
> dying similarly.
>
> dingo:~>limit
> cputime unlimited
> filesize unlimited
> datasize 524288 kbytes
> stacksize 65536 kbytes
> coredumpsize unlimited
> memoryuse 32768 kbytes
> descriptors 1024
> memorylocked unlimited
> maxproc 64
>
> So I'm fairly happy this isn't a resource configuration problem. Any
> ideas? (Very irritating this is. 8( )
>
> I managed to reproduce the problem quite quickly with 'top' running
> with a refresh delay of 0 in an xterm, unfortunately it took the shell
> with it at about 4 minutes. (Slightly over 4:15, unfortunately).
>
> --
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> \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au
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