Re: zero runtime when negative

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 24.06.2012 10:23, Adam Hoka wrote:
> 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 have similar symptoms too, but under latest VirtualBox. The behavior
is erratic though, it happens once out of 4~5 boots each day.

Just curious: what version of VMWare are you using, and is it with HVM
on an Intel or AMD box? I think we must investigate the context first
anyway, circumventing virtualization flaws with code quirks is not very
clean...

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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