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
