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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday January 19 2009, John Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> 
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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Randall Schulz
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