Re: port-arm/56842: Cron hangs on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

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From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: Gnats Bugs <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: port-arm/56842: Cron hangs on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 21:57:05 -0400

 Hello,
 
 FWIW, I haven't seen this issue running older NetBSD releases
 (presently 8.0_STABLE) on an "old" Raspberry Pi B+. Granted, I don't
 run anything every minute. That machine has been running for years
 without a hiccup (other than power outages). I could try upgrading it
 to 9.2_STABLE and see if I can replicate this. A few thoughts off the
 top of my head follow.
 
 If you look at the system after the point cron seems to have stopped
 working, what does ps(1) tell you about the state of cron? What's the
 system load at the time? (I'm assuming you have a standard CRON_WITHIN
 value like 7200 and the machine isn't under an incredibly high load all
 the time, as that seems very unlikely.)
 
 You might try enabling extra debugging information with the -x option.
 Have you found any core files from cron?
 
 What happens if you disable particular cron entries, like the script
 meant to run every minute?
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave