On Monday January 19 2009, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
On Monday January 19 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed by watching GKrellM that every five minutes there's a brief burst of about 170 forks within a period of a second or so on my openSUSE 11.1 system.
Another thing I noticed, owing to having a remote GKrellM display for my 10.3 box displayed on my 11.1 box, is that _both_ of these systems exhibit the same phenomenon. Moreover, it is _synchronized_ between the two systems, implying they're both doing this on a wall-clock schedule (both systems use NTP, of course, so they're clocks are at most a small fraction of a second disparate).
Does this help suggest a cause?
Randall Schulz --
Maybe shutdown crond for a while as a test?
I did think of cron. On your suggestion, I ran the test of temporarily shutting it down and indeed, this prevents the fork burst. One thing I don't think I've ever been able to do is _find_ all the crontabs in a SuSE Linux / openSUSE installation.
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