Server processes went out of control; Cron temporarily disabled
Posted December 22nd, 2008 by bryanstein
The server was down for a bit due to cron running a gazillion processes...we don't have an idea of exactly how many but it was well over enough to keep the system somewhat unresponsive. We tried sending the system sysreq kill all signals but nothing worked, so a restart was in order.
The problem is a cron and ldap issue...we tried recreating the problem but it seems to only manifest when ADMINS GO TO SLEEP, LOL.
WTF
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