Re: a possible bug in expect/tcl: a hypothesis

From: Todd J Martin (todd.martin_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:43:03 GMT

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John Zwiebel wrote:
| I assume (please correct me) that the kernel has a thread that
| monitors the CPU usage of all processes. When the CPU is
| pegged at 100% for x period, that process is killed. Exactly
| what is happening to my script.
|
| I'd like a theory on why it sometimes works. Is it
| because a different process other than my script is
| getting killed? -or- has the script somehow received
| and correctly processed the entire table from the
| remote-system. (It doesn't look like it)
|

This could be a setting on the shell. See ulimit -t. You may also want
to check ulimit -c, just in case it is crashing, but the system does not
allow a core file to be generated.
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