I am seeing lots of processes (20 or so) backing up, yet as far as I can tell, they are not doing anything. I'll add some tracing to see if they are actually processing, but slowly.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Massimo Di Pierro < massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you starting a lot of cron tasks that do not terminate before the > next one starts? > I suggest you use a background process and do not use cron. To my > knowledge there is no bug but cron become unpredictable if jobs take > too long. > > > Massimo > > > On Jul 5, 10:34 am, John Duddy <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm getting the following stack trace in my console after leaving my > > app running overnight. We use cron for several tasks. > > > > I saw the below thread, which indicated that the issue has been > > resolved: > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/e788b0783e... > > > > Has there been a regression? > > > > Here's the stack trace. Thanks! > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in > > __bootstrap_inner > > self.run() > > File "/root/web2py/gluon/newcron.py", line 63, in run > > s.run() > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/sched.py", line 117, in run > > File "/root/web2py/gluon/newcron.py", line 55, in launch > > crondance(self.path, 'hard', startup = False) > > File "/root/web2py/gluon/newcron.py", line 234, in crondance > > cronmaster = token.acquire(startup=startup) > > File "/root/web2py/gluon/newcron.py", line 101, in acquire > > self.master = open(self.path,'rb+') > > IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/root/web2py/applications/ > > admin/cron/cron.master' > -- John Duddy jdu...@gmail.com
