Re: zero runtime when negative

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 6/24/2012 5:13 PM, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> 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...
> 

VMWare Workstation 8, but I saw it with 7 too on my laptop. Intel i5 and
core duo respectively. HW assisted in both cases.