On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Don Krause wrote:
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
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 * * * .....
Yes my bad, a big miss.
Explains why I probably had 24 processes :)
Can you say doh!