From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: Load on this system jumped from an average of 0.2 to over 455. A ps shows 456 crond programs running. It seems to be pairs of crond's (a parent and a child) -- the parent is in "do_for" state and the child is in "coredu". Note that I have 7 machines (3 that are 100% identitical to this one) running FC1, none of the others have exhibited this symptom. A reboot fixed the problem. It's only occurred once even though this machine has been running FC1 for over 2 months. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vixie-cron-3.0.1-76 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info:
I see the same problem. I installed Fedora Core 1 on 5 machines, 4 of them had this problem. All soon after being installed. After rebooting, it never came back. but I'm running it for only 3 weeks, so it might happen again. I'm using LDAP to manage user names and groups. It might something to do with that. I don't know.
never reoccurred with vixie-cron-4.1-+. Closing bug - unreproducible.