Re: Script Timeouts

Well, its definitely neither a Perl nor a Solaris thing. I too have run Perl loops for days on Solaris machines.

You won't find any reference to it in the Camel nor the Black Book because the problem has nothing to do with Perl. Try writing a long loop in some other programming language. You will almost certainly get the same result.

My best guess is that it's something your sysadmin set up to prevent resource hogging.

Good luck finding out. Have you examined the process table for daemons with likely sounding names like alarm?

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Re: Re: Script Timeouts by Tanalis (Curate) on Nov 08, 2002 at 10:56 UTC
Yeah, that's what I figured. It's interesting, though, because it only affects Perl loops (it doesn't even affect function calls or `system` calls). I have a csh script that's been in a foreach loop for over 5 days at the minute ... There's nothing obvious on the process table, as far as I can see. Anyway, thanks for the help .. I'll give the sysadmin a call and see what he has to say for himself :) --Foxcub	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Script Timeouts
by Tanalis (Curate) on Nov 08, 2002 at 10:56 UTC

It's interesting, though, because it only affects Perl loops (it doesn't even affect function calls or system calls). I have a csh script that's been in a foreach loop for over 5 days at the minute ...

There's nothing obvious on the process table, as far as I can see.

Anyway, thanks for the help .. I'll give the sysadmin a call and see what he has to say for himself :)

--Foxcub

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