[CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?
John R. Dennison
jrd at gerdesas.comMon Sep 16 09:04:36 UTC 2013
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:34:40AM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi All. > > I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2 > crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at > the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer. > > What are the possible causes of crond running a child crond process? cron fork()s child processes to invoke the actual jobs under; this is normal behavior. John -- "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." ~~ Brian Tracey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130916/8cdf853e/attachment-0001.sig>
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