On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Don Krause wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > >> 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 > > 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!