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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Multiple (thousands) of Cron Instances Post 94389 by sysera on Friday 30th of December 2005 08:46:34 AM
Old 12-30-2005
Multiple (thousands) of Cron Instances

Hey all,

I have a box running SUSE SLES 8 and in the past few months the box will randomly spawn thousands of instances of /USR/SBIN/CRON to the point where the box will lock up entirely. Upwards of 14000 instances! I imagine it's using up all of the available files that can be opened at one time and hanging the box. It seems to happen every few months.

It's running Vixie cron, but the odd thing is I have 11 other boxes running the same OS, the same exact build and the same exact crontab and none of them are doing this.

Does anyone any experience with this happening?

Thanks.

-Sys
 

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GENBOX(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GENBOX(1)

NAME
genrbox - generate a RADIANCE description of a box SYNOPSIS
genrbox mat name xsiz ysiz zsiz [ -i ][ -r rad | -b bev ] DESCRIPTION
Genbox produces a RADIANCE scene description of a parallelepiped with one corner at the origin and the opposite corner at (xsiz, ysiz, zsiz). The sides of the box will be parallel to the three coordinate planes. The surfaces that make up the box will be modified by mat and their identifiers will begin with name. The -i option can be used to produce a box with inward directed surface normals. The -r option can be used to specify the radius for rounded edges. The -b option can be used to specify the indentation for beveled edges. EXAMPLE
To produce a rectangular box made of wood with beveled edges: genrbox wood box1 5 8 3 -b .5 > box1 AUTHOR
Greg Ward BUGS
Because spheres and cylinders are used to construct boxes with rounded edges, a transparent box of this type appears quite messy. SEE ALSO
genrev(1), gensurf(1), genworm(1), rpict(1), rvu(1), xform(1) RADIANCE
11/15/93 GENBOX(1)
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