[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

Fri Jan 21 20:01:53 UTC 2011
aurfalien at gmail.com <aurfalien at gmail.com>

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