On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:19:10AM -0800, David Jackson wrote: > > 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. > > I previous poster said that core dumps are turned off by default? Did > change your settings? Oops, no. I've now modified my /etc/init.d/crond to add: ulimit -S -c unlimited after source /etc/init.d/functions -- we'll see what that does... > Have you tried shutting down one cron job and a time, and run? No, mainly because I can't recreate the problem. I have 2 machines that are exactly the same, the other one has never had this problem. Both have been running FC1 for ~1 month. This is the first time this occurred. In a seperate message you asked what I meant by "additional cron jobs". All I meant was that in my /etc/cron.d directory I have a file called cfengine that runs cfengine once every 5 minutes. This script has been running on 40 other linux boxes (a mixture of Redhat 9 and FC1) without any problems -- and I've been running the same script for several years, so I doubt it's the script. Looking into it a little more, it looks like it occurred yesterday around 11:09am -- I went into the /proc and looked at several of the CROND processes and they all seem to have gone in to disk wait around 11:09am. > If a dump was created where would it be /tmp? I don't know -- that's why I did the find. :-) > Has anyone checked the dev-list or bugzilla? I checked bugzilla and didn't find anything. I'm not ready to create a new bugzilla report myself (I would like a little more info), maybe someone else will (or I will if I can get it to do it again :-). ...dave
