On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. >>> >>> However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, >>> the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 >>> and >>> eventually the machine dies. >>> >>> But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of >>> 1.5. >>> >>> My rsync command is simply; >>> >>> rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target >>> >>> Any thoughts? >> >> It sounds like it is not completing one run before the next one >> starts. >> If you have a lot of hardlinks, the -H option can make things slower >> than you would expect. > > No hard links, some sym links. > > But I see what you are saying. > > Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab > > * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target > > - aurf If that's your crontab, you do see that you are actually starting a separate copy of the command every minute in 10PM. No wonder you're killing you machine, try 0 22 * * * ..... -- Don Krause Head Systems Geek, Waver of Deceased Chickens. Optivus Proton Therapy, Inc. P.O. Box 608 Loma Linda, California 92354 909.799.8327 Tel 909.799.8366 Fax dkrause@xxxxxxxxxxx www.optivus.com "This message represents the official view of the voices in my head."
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