[Voyage-linux] Cron 100% CPU

Teco Boot (spam-protected)
Fri Aug 10 14:48:48 HKT 2012


Is /var/spool/cron cleaned up?
Can you run with debug on?

Teco

Op 7 aug. 2012, om 15:24 heeft bentscrewdriver het volgende geschreven:

> Okay, this one still has me puzzled. I've downgraded the net6501 to
> 0.7.5 with the same results. I can consistently duplicate this issue
> by performing a fresh install, installing only keepalived and haproxy,
> rebooting and cron start spiking to 100%, at what looks like, each
> wakeup. The odd thing is that if I remove those two packages and
> reboot cron still spikes. I then clear out /etc/crontab and
> /etc/cron.daily, restart cron - and it still spikes. The only thing
> I've found to stop it is another fresh install or /etc/init.d/cron
> stop (of course).
> 
> Any ideas on this? Punky - can you duplicate it on your 6501?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM, bentscrewdriver
> <bentscrewdriver at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I commented everything out in /etc/crontab and there are no other
>> crontabs for any users (/var/spool/cron/crontabs) so it shouldn't even
>> be running anything. This is why i am puzzled by the high usage.
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl> wrote:
>>> What is in /etc/crontab?
>>> What happens if you run the cron commands by hand?
>>> 
>>> Teco
>>> 
>>> Op 27 jul. 2012, om 16:26 heeft bentscrewdriver het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>>> I've stopped keepalived as well as haproxy and cron still spikes to
>>>> 100%  and stays there for a minute or so. Any other ideas? lsof
>>>> doesn't show anything different...thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> top - 21:47:06 up 10 days, 22:47,  3 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.44, 0.48
>>>> Tasks:  44 total,   2 running,  41 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>>>> Cpu(s): 67.2%us, 32.5%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
>>>> Mem:   2075148k total,   130808k used,  1944340k free,      256k buffers
>>>> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   103936k cached
>>>> 
>>>> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>>> 22561 root      20   0  2120  492  372 R  100  0.0   7:51.65 cron
>>>> 29911 root      20   0  2372 1032  820 R    1  0.0   8:42.16 top
>>>>   4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   4:04.04 kworker/0:0
>>>>   1 root      20   0  2072  672  580 S    0  0.0   0:20.41 init
>>>>   2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
>>>>   3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
>>>>   5 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kworker/u:0
>>>>   6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>>>>   7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
>>>>   8 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/1:0
>>>>   9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
>>>>  10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:05.88 kworker/0:1
>>>>  11 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>>>>  12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.49 kdevtmpfs
>>>>  13 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/u:1
>>>> 123 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0  71571:58 sync_supers
>>>> 125 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.09 bdi-default
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> p
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
>>>> <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 7/27/2012 12:34 AM, bentscrewdriver wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 26652 ?        Ss     0:36 /usr/sbin/keepalived
>>>>>> 26654 ?        S      0:39 /usr/sbin/keepalived
>>>>>> 26655 ?        S      6:57 /usr/sbin/keepalived
>>>>>> 29529 ?        Rs     4:29 /usr/sbin/cron -L 2
>>>>> 
>>>>> As shown, cron and keepalived spend much more user time than others.  May be
>>>>> you should check what you have done with keepalived first.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Kim-man "Punky" Tse
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