Cron Jobs Hanging

2005-08-17 Thread Doug Summers
I'm getting the daily cron jobs from OpenPKG hanging on some machines, sometimes nearly killing the CPU. Here's a sample from one machine that was unusable: ps -ef | grep openpkg root 1691 1 0 Aug15 ?00:00:00 /openpkg/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow -n 2 root 1733 1691 0

Re: Cron Jobs Hanging

2005-08-17 Thread Doug Summers
Matthias Kurz wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Doug Summers wrote: I'm getting the daily cron jobs from OpenPKG hanging on some machines, sometimes nearly killing the CPU. Here's a sample from one machine that was unusable: ps -ef | grep openpkg [...] root 7299 7296 91 Aug16 ?

Re: Cron Jobs Hanging

2005-08-17 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Doug Summers wrote: I'm getting the daily cron jobs from OpenPKG hanging on some machines, sometimes nearly killing the CPU. Here's a sample from one machine that was unusable:

Re: Cron Jobs Hanging

2005-08-17 Thread Christoph Schug
Apparently updatedb's find hangs when it hits a certain filesystem. As Matthias already wrote, find out which one it is. Assuming the file system in question of /foo/bar or is of file system type quuxfs, you will find two interessting configuration parameters 'findutils_prunefs' and

Re: Cron Jobs Hanging

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: ... I had posted a suggestion several month ago recommending that we implement processing locking on programs like findutils which may run for extended periods of time. We often use the ``shlock''