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Model Checking Contest 2025
15th edition, Paris, France, June 24, 2025
Execution of r125-tall-174876435800068
Last Updated
June 24, 2025

About the Execution of 2024-gold for Kanban-PT-00500

Execution Summary
Max Memory
Used (MB)
Time wait (ms) CPU Usage (ms) I/O Wait (ms) Computed Result Execution
Status
15689.200 3581.00 6329.00 67.10 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 normal

Execution Chart

We display below the execution chart for this examination (boot time has been removed).

Trace from the execution

Formatting '/data/fkordon/mcc2025-input.r125-tall-174876435800068.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 size=4294967296 backing_file=/data/fkordon/mcc2025-input.qcow2 backing_fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
Waiting for the VM to be ready (probing ssh)
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=====================================================================
Generated by BenchKit 2-5832
Executing tool gold2024
Input is Kanban-PT-00500, examination is UpperBounds
Time confinement is 3600 seconds
Memory confinement is 16384 MBytes
Number of cores is 4
Run identifier is r125-tall-174876435800068
=====================================================================

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preparation of the directory to be used:
/home/mcc/execution
total 552K
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 5.8K May 29 14:47 CTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 57K May 29 14:47 CTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6.3K May 29 14:47 CTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 57K May 29 14:47 CTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 4.2K May 29 14:32 GenericPropertiesDefinition.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.8K May 29 14:47 LTLCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 28K May 29 14:47 LTLCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 2.3K May 29 14:47 LTLFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 19K May 29 14:47 LTLFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 16K May 29 14:47 ReachabilityCardinality.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 169K May 29 14:47 ReachabilityCardinality.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 13K May 29 14:47 ReachabilityFireability.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 111K May 29 14:47 ReachabilityFireability.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 1.6K May 29 14:47 UpperBounds.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 3.6K May 29 14:47 UpperBounds.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6 May 29 14:32 equiv_col
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6 May 29 14:32 instance
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 6 May 29 14:32 iscolored
-rw-r--r-- 1 mcc users 14K May 29 14:32 model.pnml

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content from stdout:

=== Data for post analysis generated by BenchKit (invocation template)

The expected result is a vector of positive values
NUM_VECTOR

echo here is the order used to build the result vector(from xml file)
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-00
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-01
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-02
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-03
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-04
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-05
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-06
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-07
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-08
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-09
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-10
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-11
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-12
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-13
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-14
FORMULA_NAME Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-15

=== Now, execution of the tool begins

BK_START 1748775667100

Invoking MCC driver with
BK_TOOL=gold2024
BK_EXAMINATION=UpperBounds
BK_BIN_PATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin/
BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT=3600
BK_INPUT=Kanban-PT-00500
BK_MEMORY_CONFINEMENT=16384
Not applying reductions.
Model is PT
UpperBounds PT
Running Version 202405141337
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Running its-tools with arguments : [-pnfolder, /home/mcc/execution, -examination, UpperBounds, -its, -ltsmin, -greatspnpath, /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/, -order, META, -manyOrder, -smt, -timeout, 3600]
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Parsing pnml file : /home/mcc/execution/model.pnml
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Load time of PNML (sax parser for PT used): 43 ms
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Transformed 16 places.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Transformed 16 transitions.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Parsed PT model containing 16 places and 16 transitions and 40 arcs in 140 ms.
Parsed 16 properties from file /home/mcc/execution/UpperBounds.xml in 12 ms.
Reduction of identical properties reduced properties to check from 16 to 10
Current structural bounds on expressions (Initially) : Max Seen:[500, 0, 500, 0, 500, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] Max Struct:[+inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf]
Current structural bounds on expressions (Before main loop) : Max Seen:[500, 0, 500, 0, 500, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] Max Struct:[+inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf, +inf]
// Phase 1: matrix 16 rows 16 cols
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Computed 5 invariants in 4 ms
Current structural bounds on expressions (after invariants) : Max Seen:[500, 0, 500, 0, 500, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] Max Struct:[500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 1500]
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-07 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-15 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-04 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-02 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-00 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
RANDOM walk for 10022 steps (2 resets) in 7 ms. (1252 steps per ms)
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-13 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-11 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-14 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-09 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-03 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL BESTFIRST_WALK
BEST_FIRST walk for 40003 steps (8 resets) in 53 ms. (740 steps per ms)
Current structural bounds on expressions (after WALK) : Max Seen:[19, 22, 21, 500] Max Struct:[500, 500, 500, 1500]
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Invariant cache hit.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 4 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 3 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using state equation in 32 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 13 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Solution in real domain found non-integer solution.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 0 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using state equation in 7 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 3 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:08] [INFO ] Added : 13 causal constraints over 4 iterations in 18 ms. Result :sat
Minimization took 7 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 0 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using state equation in 16 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 2 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Solution in real domain found non-integer solution.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 2 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using state equation in 9 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 6 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Added : 14 causal constraints over 4 iterations in 40 ms. Result :sat
Minimization took 5 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using state equation in 5 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 2 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Solution in real domain found non-integer solution.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Nat]Absence check using state equation in 5 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Computed and/alt/rep : 15/24/15 causal constraints (skipped 0 transitions) in 1 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] Added : 11 causal constraints over 3 iterations in 14 ms. Result :sat
Minimization took 4 ms.
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive place invariants in 1 ms returned sat
[2025-06-01 11:01:09] [INFO ] [Real]Absence check using 4 positive and 1 generalized place invariants in 0 ms returned unsat
Current structural bounds on expressions (after SMT) : Max Seen:[19, 22, 21, 500] Max Struct:[500, 500, 500, 500]
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-12 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL SAT_SMT RANDOM_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-10 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL PARIKH_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-08 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL PARIKH_WALK
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-06 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL PARIKH_WALK
Current structural bounds on expressions (After Parikh guided walk) : Max Seen:[500] Max Struct:[500]
Support contains 1 out of 16 places. Attempting structural reductions.
Starting structural reductions in REACHABILITY mode, iteration 0 : 16/16 places, 16/16 transitions.
Graph (trivial) has 12 edges and 16 vertex of which 6 / 16 are part of one of the 3 SCC in 1 ms
Free SCC test removed 3 places
Drop transitions (Empty/Sink Transition effects.) removed 6 transitions
Reduce isomorphic transitions removed 6 transitions.
Ensure Unique test removed 1 places
Drop transitions (Trivial Post-Agglo cleanup.) removed 2 transitions
Trivial Post-agglo rules discarded 2 transitions
Performed 2 trivial Post agglomeration. Transition count delta: 2
Iterating post reduction 0 with 3 rules applied. Total rules applied 4 place count 12 transition count 8
Reduce places removed 2 places and 0 transitions.
Iterating post reduction 1 with 2 rules applied. Total rules applied 6 place count 10 transition count 8
Performed 3 Pre agglomeration using Quasi-Persistent + Divergent Free condition..
Pre-agglomeration after 2 with 3 Pre rules applied. Total rules applied 6 place count 10 transition count 5
Deduced a syphon composed of 3 places in 0 ms
Ensure Unique test removed 1 places
Reduce places removed 5 places and 0 transitions.
Iterating global reduction 2 with 8 rules applied. Total rules applied 14 place count 5 transition count 5
Performed 1 Pre agglomeration using Quasi-Persistent + Divergent Free condition..
Pre-agglomeration after 2 with 1 Pre rules applied. Total rules applied 14 place count 5 transition count 4
Deduced a syphon composed of 1 places in 0 ms
Reduce places removed 2 places and 0 transitions.
Iterating global reduction 2 with 3 rules applied. Total rules applied 17 place count 3 transition count 4
Performed 1 Post agglomeration using F-continuation condition.Transition count delta: 1
Deduced a syphon composed of 1 places in 0 ms
Reduce places removed 1 places and 0 transitions.
Iterating global reduction 2 with 2 rules applied. Total rules applied 19 place count 2 transition count 3
Drop transitions (Empty/Sink Transition effects.) removed 1 transitions
Reduce isomorphic transitions removed 1 transitions.
Iterating post reduction 2 with 1 rules applied. Total rules applied 20 place count 2 transition count 2
Applied a total of 20 rules in 40 ms. Remains 2 /16 variables (removed 14) and now considering 2/16 (removed 14) transitions.
Finished structural reductions in REACHABILITY mode , in 1 iterations and 50 ms. Remains : 2/16 places, 2/16 transitions.
// Phase 1: matrix 2 rows 2 cols
[2025-06-01 11:01:10] [INFO ] Computed 1 invariants in 0 ms
Current structural bounds on expressions (after invariants) : Max Seen:[500] Max Struct:[500]
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-05 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
FORMULA Kanban-PT-00500-UpperBounds-01 500 TECHNIQUES TOPOLOGICAL INITIAL_STATE
RANDOM walk for 1000049 steps (2 resets) in 86 ms. (11494 steps per ms)
BEST_FIRST walk for 0 steps (0 resets) in 0 ms. (0 steps per ms)
Current structural bounds on expressions (after WALK) : Max Seen:[] Max Struct:[]
RANDOM walk for 0 steps (0 resets) in 4 ms. (0 steps per ms) remains 0/0 properties
Finished probabilistic random walk after 0 steps, run visited all 0 properties in 0 ms. (steps per millisecond=0 )
[2025-06-01 11:01:10] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 103 ms
[2025-06-01 11:01:10] [INFO ] Flatten gal took : 1 ms
[2025-06-01 11:01:10] [INFO ] Time to serialize gal into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality2254726555179942652.gal : 3 ms
[2025-06-01 11:01:10] [INFO ] Time to serialize properties into /tmp/ReachabilityCardinality17661085721087659835.prop : 1 ms
Invoking ITS tools like this :cd /home/mcc/execution;'/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.itstools.binaries_1.0.0.202405141337/bin/its-reach-linux64' '--gc-threshold' '2000000' '--quiet' '-i' '/tmp/ReachabilityCardinality2254726555179942652.gal' '-t' 'CGAL' '-reachable-file' '/tmp/ReachabilityCardinality17661085721087659835.prop' '--nowitness' '--gen-order' 'FOLLOW'
ITS runner timed out or was interrupted.

its-reach command run as :

ITS tools runner thread asked to quit. Dying gracefully.
/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.itstools.binaries_1.0.0.202405141337/bin/its-reach-linux64 --gc-threshold 2000000 --quiet ...329
java.io.IOException: Stream closed
at java.base/java.io.BufferedInputStream.getBufIfOpen(BufferedInputStream.java:168)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:334)
at java.base/sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.readBytes(StreamDecoder.java:270)
at java.base/sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implRead(StreamDecoder.java:313)
at java.base/sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:188)
at java.base/java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:177)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:162)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:329)
at java.base/java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:396)
at fr.lip6.move.gal.application.runner.its.ITSRunner$ITSInterpreter.run(ITSRunner.java:211)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Current structural bounds on expressions (After reachability solving 0 queries.) : Max Seen:[] Max Struct:[]
All properties solved without resorting to model-checking.
Total runtime 2263 ms.

BK_STOP 1748775670681

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content from stderr:

+ export BINDIR=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//../
+ BINDIR=/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//../
++ pwd
+ export MODEL=/home/mcc/execution
+ MODEL=/home/mcc/execution
+ [[ UpperBounds = StateSpace ]]
+ /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//runeclipse.sh /home/mcc/execution UpperBounds -its -ltsmin -greatspnpath /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/ -order META -manyOrder -smt -timeout 3600
+ ulimit -s 65536
+ [[ -z '' ]]
+ export LTSMIN_MEM_SIZE=8589934592
+ LTSMIN_MEM_SIZE=8589934592
+ export PYTHONPATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/pylibs
+ PYTHONPATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/pylibs
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/pylibs:
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mcc/BenchKit/itstools/pylibs:
++ sed s/.jar//
++ perl -pe 's/.*\.//g'
++ ls /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//itstools/plugins/fr.lip6.move.gal.application.pnmcc_1.0.0.202405141337.jar
+ VERSION=202405141337
+ echo 'Running Version 202405141337'
+ /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//itstools/its-tools -pnfolder /home/mcc/execution -examination UpperBounds -its -ltsmin -greatspnpath /home/mcc/BenchKit/bin//../itstools/bin//..//greatspn/ -order META -manyOrder -smt -timeout 3600

Sequence of Actions to be Executed by the VM

This is useful if one wants to reexecute the tool in the VM from the submitted image disk.

set -x
# this is for BenchKit: configuration of major elements for the test
export BK_INPUT="Kanban-PT-00500"
export BK_EXAMINATION="UpperBounds"
export BK_TOOL="gold2024"
export BK_RESULT_DIR="/tmp/BK_RESULTS/OUTPUTS"
export BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT="3600"
export BK_MEMORY_CONFINEMENT="16384"
export BK_BIN_PATH="/home/mcc/BenchKit/bin/"

# this is specific to your benchmark or test

export BIN_DIR="$HOME/BenchKit/bin"

# remove the execution directoty if it exists (to avoid increse of .vmdk images)
if [ -d execution ] ; then
rm -rf execution
fi

# this is for BenchKit: explicit launching of the test
echo "====================================================================="
echo " Generated by BenchKit 2-5832"
echo " Executing tool gold2024"
echo " Input is Kanban-PT-00500, examination is UpperBounds"
echo " Time confinement is $BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT seconds"
echo " Memory confinement is 16384 MBytes"
echo " Number of cores is 4"
echo " Run identifier is r125-tall-174876435800068"
echo "====================================================================="
echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "preparation of the directory to be used:"

tar xzf /home/mcc/BenchKit/INPUTS/Kanban-PT-00500.tgz
mv Kanban-PT-00500 execution
cd execution
if [ "UpperBounds" = "ReachabilityDeadlock" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "UpperBounds" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "QuasiLiveness" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "StableMarking" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "Liveness" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "OneSafe" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "StateSpace" ]; then
rm -f GenericPropertiesVerdict.xml
fi
pwd
ls -lh

echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "content from stdout:"
echo
echo "=== Data for post analysis generated by BenchKit (invocation template)"
echo
if [ "UpperBounds" = "UpperBounds" ] ; then
echo "The expected result is a vector of positive values"
echo NUM_VECTOR
elif [ "UpperBounds" != "StateSpace" ] ; then
echo "The expected result is a vector of booleans"
echo BOOL_VECTOR
else
echo "no data necessary for post analysis"
fi
echo
if [ -f "UpperBounds.xml" ] ; then # for cunf (txt files deleted;-)
echo echo "here is the order used to build the result vector(from xml file)"
for x in $(grep '' UpperBounds.xml | cut -d '>' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort -u) ; do
echo "FORMULA_NAME $x"
done
elif [ "UpperBounds" = "ReachabilityDeadlock" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "QuasiLiveness" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "StableMarking" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "Liveness" ] || [ "UpperBounds" = "OneSafe" ] ; then
echo "FORMULA_NAME UpperBounds"
fi
echo
echo "=== Now, execution of the tool begins"
echo
echo -n "BK_START "
date -u +%s%3N
echo
timeout -s 9 $BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT bash -c "/home/mcc/BenchKit/BenchKit_head.sh 2> STDERR ; echo ; echo -n \"BK_STOP \" ; date -u +%s%3N"
if [ $? -eq 137 ] ; then
echo
echo "BK_TIME_CONFINEMENT_REACHED"
fi
echo
echo "--------------------"
echo "content from stderr:"
echo
cat STDERR ;