Re: [tlug] Server shows strange load and memory spikes

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:01:54PM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Yesterday I stopped anacron, since it runs logrotate, hoping that would 
> solve the problem of my load average going at weird times. The load on my 
...
> root       650  0.0  0.0  1604  444 ?        S    May31   0:00 crond

You still have (vixie-)cron running, and it is often
(normally?) the one that does log rotation.  (On Redhat, by
means of the files in /etc/cron.daily.)

Check your /etc/crontab (and any /etc/cron.* directories/files).



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