Re: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
> root 388 0.0 0.0 3480 764 ?D04:50 0:00 cp /var/www/html/sks.com/images/**backgrounds/8.jpg /var/www/html/sks.com/images/**backgroundimage.jpg Others have answered your question, I thou

Re: [SLUG] Freedom loving Motherboard

2012-07-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
>> Tuxta utter >> crap. > Really?? Doesn't seem gentle and without being rude. Just stating you > are not rude does not make it so. Well said. > If anyone has any suggestions on motherboards I would love to hear from > you. Very appropriate question for the list. Glad you asked it. BTW, the to

Re: [SLUG] Freedom loving Motherboard

2012-07-17 Thread James Linder
On 18/07/2012, at 10:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: >> >> Tuxta utter >> crap. > > Really?? Doesn't seem gentle and without being rude. Just stating you are not > rude does not make it so. > Appears very much like you are taking it personally that my values are > different from your

Re: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread kfoskey
If you have multiple cp to the same file then it is too be expected, the first locks the file and the others will hold up. As said previously if the original copy is failing then look to disk failures, perhaps space problems or hardware problems. As for the design issue here it would be bet

Re: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - > From: "David" > To: slug@slug.org.au > Sent: Wednesday, 18 July, 2012 9:05:38 AM > Subject: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash > > root 388 0.0 0.0 3480 764 ?D04:50 0:00 cp > /var/www/html/sks.com/images/backgrounds/8.jpg

[SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread David
I have a script that has been running for several years. It's purpose is to change the background image to a website randomly every minute. This morning apache was not responding and the problem seemed to be that this cron wasn't exiting, resulting in over 2000 processes running. the output o

Re: [SLUG] Freedom loving Motherboard

2012-07-17 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Tuxta, Recently bought the following but with an Intel chip rather than AMD. ASUS P9X79 Deluxe mothboard. Intel Six-Core i7-3930K, OC up to 4.4GHz, X79 Chipset, 32GB DDR3 RAM, NVidia GTX560Ti SLI 2 x Samsung monitors Tried Centos 6.2 to start with and it ran well but now running Fedora 17 o