cron goes mad?
Dave Alden
alden at math.ohio-state.edu
Thu Jan 15 13:41:01 UTC 2004
Hi,
I've got the exact same problem. :-( The load on this workstation is
up to 478. :-) I received no mail fron cron and there is nothing out
of the ordinary in any of the logfiles in /var/log. I did a:
find / -xdev -name core | xargs ls -ld
and there are no core files from within the last week. All 478 of the
CROND processes were started yesterday (January 14th). crond died
somewhere between 16:40:00 and 16:56:25 (when I noticed the problem and
did a /etc/init.d/crond restart). I have a process that runs every
5 minutes and it's last entry was at 16:40:00 in /var/log/cron.
I tried doing an strace to both a "do_for" process (parent process) and
its child the "coredu" process, both of them just sat there with no
information.
I'm at a complete loss.
...dave
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