Subject: cron on and on
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Thorsten Jens <thojens@gmx.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/06/2001 14:41:16
Hi everybody!

I finally installed NetBSD 1.5 on my VAXserver 3100. It is running
pretty good so far, I guess. 

The only thing I noticed as I just telnetted to the machine was that
cron was stealing all of the processor time, see the "top" output:

load averages:  1.33,  1.18,  1.11                                  14:30:47
11 processes:  1 runnable, 9 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states: 18.0% user,  0.0% nice, 82.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
Memory: 3252K Act, 4220K Inact, 116K Wired, 11M Free, 49M Swap free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE     TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  181 root      64    0   116K  360K run     218:53 86.13% 86.13% cron
  302 thodi     33    0   148K  528K onproc    0:01  5.71%  3.61% top
  298 thodi      2    0   168K  548K sleep     0:09  3.13%  3.12% top
  300 thodi     10    0   400K  184K sleep     0:02  3.35%  2.64% sh
  299 root       2    0   100K  868K sleep     0:02  2.24%  1.86% telnetd
  286 root       2    0   100K  868K sleep     0:02  0.05%  0.05% telnetd
  183 root       3    0   364K  260K sleep     0:05  0.00%  0.00% csh
  287 thodi     10    0   400K  188K sleep     0:02  0.00%  0.00% sh
   97 root       2    0    80K  344K sleep     0:01  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
    1 root      10    0   280K  164K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% init
  178 root       2    0    72K  396K sleep     0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd

Is this a bug, or is cron always taking taking so long?

Thorsten
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