On 1/21/2011 2:30 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? How long does the rsync take to complete when you run it manually? How often does cron run the command? -- Bowie