On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Lord Isildur wrote:

> you have a process time limit, this is why this is happening. When a process
> exceeds its limit, the kernel is sending it signal 24 for which the default
> action is to terminate. You can catch it and exit gracefully  but generally
> if you get an XCPU it means that if you dont get out of the way soon youll
> be more explicitly killed (with a KILL). You can disable the time limit 
> if you wish. 
> You can see the limits with ulimit.

This would explain why it is usually the screen process that goes out
first..

i start screen at login-time ;-)



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