From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76C-ja [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) Description of problem: After a complete upgrade from Red Hat 7.0 to Red Hat 7.1 I noticed that there are hung CROND processes. This only happened after the upgrade, and presists. This was discovered by unusual load averages on a system that has always had a load average of 0, and now has 10, and increasing. ps -ef |grep -i cron procudes [ahnoyd@superman ahnoyd]$ ps -ef|grep -i cron root 531 1 0 Jun01 ? 00:00:00 crond root 1583 531 0 Jun01 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 1585 1583 0 Jun01 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 778 531 0 Jun02 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 18465 531 0 Jun03 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 18466 18465 0 Jun03 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 5965 531 0 06:00 ? 00:00:00 CROND root 5968 5965 0 06:00 ? 00:00:00 CROND ahnoyd 25772 25739 0 17:52 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i cron At a least hung state. There was a machine with 30 hung CRONDs sleeping. /var/log/cron & /var/log/cron.1 matched the PIDs for the hung CRONDs. We were albe to determine that our commands, and programs have executed and completed in a ``normal'' state. The only other oddity I was able to see was awk -v progname=/etc/cron.hourly running for a long time on our new 7.1 machines. Is there something amiss with cron? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add cron entries ton crontab -e 2. wait a day or so "watch load averages" 3. ps -ef | grep -i crond Actual Results: you will notice mutiple hung CROND processes. Expected Results: only one crond process or so. Additional info: The only change to our systems was the RH 7.1 full upgrade.