[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 19:54:36 UTC 2011
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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