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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.

Journal of Matts (1087)

Friday October 24, 2003
01:54 AM

Load back down

[ #15364 ]

As suspected, something fishy was wrong.

I had a cron job that didn't exit. So I had about 300 copies of it running. And of course it was running perl, so it used quite a bit of RAM.

Strange that cron doesn't set an alarm.

My load is back to a healthy 2.0 ;-) Unfortunately I know why it's that high (a super sekrit work project - mail me privately if you want to know exactly what) and don't see any way to get it down.


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  • I've been bitten by this so many times in the past that I now never ever write a cronjob without inserting a few lines of code that ensure that no previous instance of the cronjob is running, and sends me mail if it's the case.
    • FreeBSD has a nice program called lockf(1) for dealing with similiar situations. It just grabs a lock, runs a command and releases the lock. very handy.

      -Dom

      • There exist CPAN modules like Proc::Pidfile, Proc::PID::File and probably other which help to assure you don't run more that one instance of the process. I used one of them in the past but forgot which one so cannot recommend any of them.
        --

        Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/ [martynov.org])

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