I don't have profiling enabled in either kernel for my 5000/240 and my
5000/200, yet both have killed off long-running bc jobs with a "Profiling
timer expired" message.

I'd like to run long-running processes on these machines if I could...

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    "anything but analog, man.  two cans and string beats dealing with
     resetting stuck modems, no matter how many insane whack-ass expect
     scripts [written] to deal with 'em." -- Skeezics Boondoggle