[17495] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.25: cron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Emery)
Mon Jan 31 18:06:03 2000
Message-Id: <200001312305.SAA12599@m4-167-4.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:05:55 -0500
From: Grant Emery <gemery@MIT.EDU>
System name: m4-167-4.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.25
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: /mit/windowmanagers/bin/fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
nothing special, just minding my own business
What's wrong:
cron seems to be spinning out of control, soaking up all
available cpu time. here's the line out of top:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
282 root -25 0 1500K 668K run 201.7H 94.63% 97.17% cron
this behavior didn't start until a few minutes after i logged in, judging
from xload.
What should have happened:
cron should presumably have remained happily asleep until such
time as it was needed to do something.
-grant
