548499 - Probable issues caused by affiliates_cron.php

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites Graveyard :: spreadfirefox.com, defect)

Description

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

We've been seeing some issues on mradm02 (high load, caused a by a ton of php processes all running affiliates_cron.php and not exiting, which in turn uses up RAM and causes the machine to swap) for about a week now.

I've disabled the cron as of 5 mins ago and I'm watching the box to confirm that this is indeed the cause. 

If this is the case, we would have to look into what the cron job does and if it has to run once an hour or maybe stagger the runs even more.

Comment 1

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

Once a day would be fine.

Comment 2

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

and, could we have the cron job create a lock file?  so it never starts two processes?

Comment 3

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

did you ever turn this back on?

Comment 4

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

hello??

Comment 5

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

hello Alex, 

Nice to see you!

Comment 6

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Funny, never got your last comment. No, I'll turn it on to run once a day now.

Comment 7

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> hello Alex, 
> 
> Nice to see you!

Hai! welcome back :D

(In reply to comment #6)
> Funny, never got your last comment. No, I'll turn it on to run once a day now.

thanks

Comment 8

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

I've turned it back on for once a day now, if it runs into issues again, I'll put in the lockfile.