On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/21/2011 1:30 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? > > 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