Re: zero runtime when negative

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4FE6CE73.70308%gmail.com@localhost>, Adam Hoka  
<adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Can you guys please check if the following makes sense:
>
>http://www.netbsd.org/~ahoka/patches/timebackwards.diff        
>
>The use case is the following:
>
>After starting NetBSD in vmware I see a lot of RLIMIT_CPU reached
>messages overflowing my dmesg. At some time during the boot one or more
>processes calculate a negative runtime, but as nothing resets them to
>zero they keep reaching the cpu limit and the printouts are spamming the
>console. Also the printout is bogus, because they are not really killed
>in this case.
>
>Any comments?

I would prefer to understand why this is happening first before putting
it under the carpet.

christos