net-im/skype shows negative sbsize for uid = 1001

Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina cjpugmed at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 10:39:28 UTC 2013


Hi people,

Seems that net-im/skype-2.1.0.81_1,1 doesn't like to work with sbsize limit
managed by FreeBSD as it's confirmed by the following output's messages
registered:

% tail -n 10 /var/log/messages
Oct 22 12:27:58 freebsd kernel: linux: pid 2377 (skype): ioctl fd=11,
cmd=0x564a ('V',74) is not implemented
Oct 22 12:27:58 freebsd last message repeated 2 times
Oct 22 12:27:59 freebsd kernel: negative sbsize for uid = 1001
Oct 22 12:27:59 freebsd last message repeated 2080 times
Oct 22 12:27:59 freebsd kernel: = 1001
Oct 22 12:27:59 freebsd kernel: negative sbsize for uid = 1001
Oct 22 12:27:59 freebsd last message repeated 2126 times
Oct 22 12:28:00 freebsd kernel: = 1001
Oct 22 12:28:00 freebsd kernel: negative sbsize for uid = 1001
Oct 22 12:28:00 freebsd last message repeated 3795 times

Using csh(1) appears this problem.

% limit
cputime      unlimited
filesize     unlimited
datasize     524288 kbytes
stacksize    65536 kbytes
coredumpsize 0 kbytes
memoryuse    unlimited
vmemoryuse   unlimited
descriptors  32768
memorylocked 64 kbytes
maxproc      5547
sbsize       unlimited
swapsize     unlimited


Should I ignore these messages safely?

--CJPM


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