From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T02:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get CPU usage


On Jan 5, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Gary Wright wrote:
> trap ("SIGXCPU") { puts 'received XCPU, shutting down'; exit }

On Mac OS X, SIGXCPU gets sent every second or so once you've
exceeded the hard limit.  You can still ignore or catch the
signal at that point---the os won't just kill the process.

I'm not sure if this behavior follows the applicable standards
or is just OS X's take on the situation.

Gary Wright