Re: [expert] Does Linux impose a time limit on processes?

[Robert Goshko]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 03:39, David Guntner wrote:
> Does the kernel impose some kind of time limit on processes that are 
> running?  Or some kind of max time on the user that's running it?  I'm 
> running a web-based application that uses "screen" to manipulate everything 
> (I click on something in the web interface, and it runs an expect script 
> that does a "screen -r" to reconnect to the session that's running the 
> server in a shell, issues a command, end then displays the results in the 
> web window).  Does "screen" impose some kind of time limit, perhaps?
> 
> Any information or ideas on where to look into this would be appreciated.

No time limits that I know of here are a couple of lines from on of my
boxes:

 2627 rgoshko   19  19 15764  15M   740 R N  98.2  4.0 49855m setiathome
 2626 rgoshko   19  19 16156  15M   752 R N  84.4  4.0 49851m setiathome

So I don't think that it is a kernel problem.

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[expert] Does Linux impose a time limit on processes?

[David Guntner]

Hi,

I'm running a Neverwinter Nights game server on my ML 9.0 box, which runs 
up quite a bit of CPU time.  For example, after a day of running, "top" 
shows the time column entry for it with over 200 minutes.

I leave the server running, but I've noticed that it has a habbit of just 
stopping after a while.  No message in the syslog, no error messages of any 
kind in the nwserver logs, no nothing.  It just goes away.

Does the kernel impose some kind of time limit on processes that are 
running?  Or some kind of max time on the user that's running it?  I'm 
running a web-based application that uses "screen" to manipulate everything 
(I click on something in the web interface, and it runs an expect script 
that does a "screen -r" to reconnect to the session that's running the 
server in a shell, issues a command, end then displays the results in the 
web window).  Does "screen" impose some kind of time limit, perhaps?

Any information or ideas on where to look into this would be appreciated.

--Dave
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