Re: deadlock with 2.6.9

[Chris Stromsoe]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Chris Stromsoe wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> > Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> >
> > > I had a third lockup, this time not related to burning a dvd.  As 
> > > before, the bulk of the processes that were hung were cron
> >
> > Why so many cron processes?  Is this normal on your system, or does it 
> > look like cron keeps spawning processes because it gets no response on 
> > the sockets?
>
> I'm guessing so many processes because every time one gets started, it 
> ends up getting stuck in schedule_timeout(), until the system stops 
> spawning new processes.  There are many of them because the system was 
> running for a day or so before it became unresponsive.

That wasn't very clear.  The high number of cron jobs is extremely 
abnormal.  There are generally never more than a handful running at any 
one time, and very rarely more than only the parent cron process.  The 
most frequent cronjob on the system runs every 5 minutes.


-Chris
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