cron dies (randomly?) on fedora core 1

[Jeremy Brown]

Andy Green wrote:

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>On Wednesday 26 May 2004 21:01, Jeremy Brown wrote:
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>>Has anyone experienced strange behavior like this from the vixie-cron
>>packaged with Fedora?  Or anyone know of a reason cron might be killed
>>by the OS?
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>Check you memory usage... I and others have observed that slocate (run by 
>cron) is somehow leaking monsterous amounts of memory.
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>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100666
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>I have seen this on two machines at least (the others are up and down too 
>often for it to accumilate noticeably), and now disable slocate in 
>cron.daily.
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Strange.  I've set up a process to repeatedly run 
"/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron", check memory usage, and check to see if 
crond is still running.  I see that the first time "slocate.cron" is 
run, available memory definitely does shoot way down, but after that it 
seems to stay about the same.

I'll holler back with some results, hopefully in a day or so.

Jeremy