Re: 2.2.10 gone nuts?

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:43:10 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> Are there any "magic" counters which (on intel) wrap at ~40-50 days
> uptime? We've got a couple of processes gone nuts (even after they are
> restarted). When I say "go nuts", I mean "chewing a lot of CPU".
> [...]
> gettimeofday({934830292, 925664}, {0, 0}) = 0
> oldselect(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({934830292, 935660}, {0, 0}) = 0

The select call seems to be asking for a timeout of 1 microsecond
and the difference between the gettimeofday() calls is 10000 microseconds
or 10 milliseconds or 1/100 of a second or 1 jiffie. Since the requested
timeout gets rounded up to the next jiffie this is as expected. It looks
like an application error. At least, it lost its marbles before this
point :-).

Mike

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