Server is hung with multiple 'crond' in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- There are a lot of CROND processes running
# pstree
init─┬─crond───663*[crond───crond]
├─syslog-ng───syslog-ng
# ps -ef | grep CROND | wc -l
1329
root 5135 0.0 0.0 9496 1424 ? Ss 14:56 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/service syslog-ng start
root 5142 0.0 0.0 11476 1432 ? S 14:56 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
root 5155 0.0 0.0 30832 2300 ? S 14:56 0:00 /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps
root 5156 0.0 0.0 30832 888 ? S 14:56 0:00 supervising syslog-ng
root 5157 0.0 0.0 58484 3244 ? Ss 14:56 0:00 /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --no-caps
root 5383 0.0 0.0 148136 1864 ? S 15:02 0:00 CROND
root 5385 0.0 0.0 148132 1024 ? S 15:02 0:00 CROND
root 5387 0.0 0.0 148136 1864 ? S 15:03 0:00 CROND
root 5389 0.0 0.0 148132 1024 ? S 15:03 0:00 CROND
root 5394 0.0 0.0 148136 1864 ? S 15:04 0:00 CROND
root 5396 0.0 0.0 148132 1024 ? S 15:04 0:00 CROND
root 5398 0.0 0.0 148136 1864 ? S 15:05 0:00 CROND
...
pingto server is working butsshfrom the remote and localhost are not working.- system logs are not written such as
/var/log/messages,/var/log/cron,/var/log/secure
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- 3rd party package
syslog-ng-premium-edition-client-4.2.4-1.rhel6.x86_64by Balabit Corp.
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