[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

Fri Jan 21 20:09:22 UTC 2011
Don Krause <dkrause at optivus.com>

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com 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 * * * .....

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