[CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?

Mon Sep 16 08:34:40 UTC 2013
Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>

Hi All.

I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2
crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at
the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer.

What are the possible causes of crond running a child crond process?

Best regards,
Rafal.