From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 16 20:10: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB3F37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF4643E70 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7H3A5JU035972 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7H3A5dW035971; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA07437B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB2743E6E for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7H30TOT094109 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7H30TXY094108; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208170300.g7H30TXY094108@www.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:00:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Toby Burress To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 Subject: i386/41741: Cron calling periodic spawns hundreds of sh Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 41741 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Cron calling periodic spawns hundreds of sh >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 16 20:10:05 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Toby Burress >Release: 4.6-STABLE, 4.6-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD newton.kurin.d2g.com 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Tue Aug 13 13:24:27 EDT 2002 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWTON i386 >Description: I have an Intel Celeron 333 with 208MB of RAM. Whenever Periodic is called by cron, so many sh will spawn that all processes lock up and I get "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" and have to hard-reboot. As root (under csh) the error simply is "no more processes." >How-To-Repeat: I think this problem is very hardware specific, as Google searches result in nothing and neither have I found anything here, but there have been no other odd errors (I've built world from -RELEASE to -STABLE with no problem) and I can call periodic manually with no problem. To repeat the problem, simply let cron call periodic daily|weekly|monthly. >Fix: No known fix. Comment out the cron and do it manually. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message