Re: Stream of kernel messages: pid <n> is killed: exceeded RLIMIT_CPU

[Jarle Greipsland <jarle%uninett.no@localhost>]

christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> In article <20111111.191741.32105936.jarle%uninett.no@localhost>,
> >I just booted a -current kernel on my alpha, and now the kernel
> >frequently logs messages like:
> >
> >pid 0 is killed: exceeded RLIMIT_CPU
> >pid 798 is killed: exceeded RLIMIT_CPU
> >pid 39 is killed: exceeded RLIMIT_CPU
> >
> >Now, from this I would expect bad things to happen, but it seems
> >that the processes aren't really killed.  Only the message
> >appear.  A bug somewhere, perhaps?
> 
> What does ulimit print?
socket buffer size       (bytes, -b) unlimited
core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) 262144
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 341824
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) 1025472
open files                      (-n) 128
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 2048
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 160
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

                                        -jarle