Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfalien@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.