[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

[aurfalien at gmail.com]

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