Hi all,
I'm running a DEC v3.2. We use cron quite a bit, and in the
afternoon we have it run a particular process every 10 minutes, starting
at 5:05 PM local time and continuing every 10 minutes until 6:55 (this
is correctly set up in the crontab). The curious thing is that quite
often, it seems that cron "forgets" to launch the process! Sometimes
it will begin at the next run time (5:15), but sometimes it misses
several times (yesterday it didn't actually launch until 5:45, so it missed
4 chances).
I am wondering if this has anything to do with /var/adm/cron/queuedefs.
Ours has an entry of "b.50j20n60w", which means that there are a maximum
of 50 "batch" processes which can be run. If I do a ps -ef | wc -l
around that time, the number is usually right around 50. Are all those
processes "batch" processes? If I crank up the queuedefs entry to a higher
number, say 100, will that solve the problem? What do I need to do
to get the new queuedefs to take effect?
Many thanks in advance,
Kevin Tyle
MESO, Inc.
Received on Wed Nov 19 1997 - 00:55:22 NZDT