Subject: Re: bin/1302: impossible output from sa(8).
To: None <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/03/1995 06:52:36
>> Most plausibly, I would say, aeg managed to leave a process in an
>> infinite loop.  983121.23 seconds is between 11 and 12 days; [...]

> That would be plausibly, except that any such process only had 15
> days to accumulate 11+ days worth of CPU so it would have to be using
> 75% of the CPU for 15 days.  I rather think I'd have noticed that :-)

> I know that only 15 days were available as the only time aeg was
> logged on during the accounting period was July 15 and 16.

Ah, but you're forgetting that the process could have been started
before the accounting period; as long as it _termintes_ during the
accounting period, you'll see its record.  It could have been started
at any point after the previous boot.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu