[17871] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.25: cron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue May 30 17:54:04 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200005302154.RAA20534@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Grant Emery <gemery@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17495] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi Grant,
> 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.
Since the Athena 8.4 release is moving to a new version of solaris
(solaris 7), we'll probably have a whole different set of bugs.
Between that and the fact that this isn't particularly useful, I'm
going to close your bug report now. Thanks for taking the time to
submit it though.
--
Jonathon
