On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > 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? About 1 hour. > How often does cron run the command? Every night at 10PM. - aurf