topic Re: Cron script hogging cpu in Operating System - HP-UX

Cron script hogging cpu

chindi — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 05:22:04 GMT

Hi,

We have scron scripts in cron which application users call their profile and execute some scripts.

What we have observed is that for one host when its running its shoots sys% to 75% in top.

What could be the reason ?

Script is shown below:

#!/bin/ksh
trap "" 1 2 3 15
set -e
REALNAME=`id | cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d")" -f1`
exit_value=1
if [ -r /nos/ure/$1 ] ; then
for i in `cat /nos/ure/$1`
do
if [ "$i" = "$REALNAME" ] ; then
exit_value=0
break
fi
done
fi
exit $exit_value

Re: Cron script hogging cpu

Steven Schweda — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:14:20 GMT

> What could be the reason ?

I don't know. Almost anything? What's "$1"? What's in
"/nos/ure/$1"? What happens when you run the script interactively on
these systems? (You can test your script on your systems in your
environment more easily than anyone here can.)

> [...] users call their profile [...]

Do all users have see the same behavior? What's in "their profile"?
Is the script causing the problem, or is "their profile" causing it?

Re: Cron script hogging cpu

Dennis Handly — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 04:02:29 GMT

What command does top(1) show is using that amount of CPU?

Also, why aren't you using "fgrep -x -q' to find your ID in that file?