I have a long running script running out of cron. Most of the time is spent sleeping, but takes a few hours overall.
userx 31929 0.0 2.4 9116 12156 ?? S 5:39AM 0:09.27 /usr/bin/perl /home/userx/LWP/LWP_ref.pl _postgresql 29990 0.0 1.4 3892 7328 ?? Ss 5:39AM 0:00.33 postgres: dbuser db 127.0.0.1(39434) idle (postgres) userx 11830 0.0 0.5 1164 2524 ?? I 5:40AM 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t
Shows up during whole process. I've seen some odd behavior sometimes while this is running, but not always. I can't be sure if it is script related or ISP related.
Does having sendmail open for a few hours cause any problems? I was thinking that if it does, I could easily rewrite to print out details only at very end of script.
Thanks, Chris Bennett
