cron job is overly noisy

[Anand Kumria]

Binary package hint: sysstat

1)

eve[~]% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

2)

eve[~]% apt-cache policy sysstat
sysstat:
  Installed: 9.0.3-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 9.0.3-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.3-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)

Currently sysstat is not enabled (via /etc/default/sysstat) but an email is generated from the cron job every 10 minutes.

4)

No noise from cron when executing the job

e.g.
Nov  7 09:05:01 eve CRON[9668]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Nov  7 09:09:01 eve CRON[9673]: (root) CMD (  [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)
Nov  7 09:15:01 eve CRON[9687]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Nov  7 09:17:01 eve CRON[9691]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 09:25:01 eve CRON[9708]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Nov  7 09:35:01 eve CRON[9718]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 7 11:08:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: sysstat 9.0.3-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: sysstat
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[yurx cherio (cherio)]

Also happens on my 64bit karmic.

[Destrudo Dole (destrudo)]

We have two options for an 'easy' fix:
1) Install sysstat from your desired package manager
2) Delete the cron.d entry named /etc/cron.d/sysstat

I theorize we're all installing and uninstalling sysstat (with unclean script removal.)

[Mahyuddin Susanto (udienz)]

Try to rebuild systat package and apply this patch

[AnkitRaj (ankit7540)]

This issue is causing system freeze and unresponsive keyboard and mice, with no display.
Using sysstat 11.2.0-1ubuntu0.1 on 16.04 LTS with 4.10 kernel.

Removed it to solve the freeze problem.

[AnkitRaj (ankit7540)]

Seems like the solution to this issue is here.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516439

Could some developer check this please.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Ankit,
there is no default SA1_OPTIONS entry for ages that could cause the original issue.
So the bug is solved a long time ago.
Also I have sysstat on plenty of servers and none mails me about that.
I checked once more if the mails might be queued but they just don't get created.

Thanks for the ping as this is really solved a long time ago.

I'd assume your issue with unresponsive key/mice and such is a different issue.
At least it is a different bug than the one reported here back in 2009.

You could open a new bug to discuss your (probably different) issue.
When doing so please directly attach the /etc/default/sysstat
And since you say it hangs I'd asusme that the regular runs cause some sort of cpu-hog.
It would be great if you could let run something like this for 25 minutes and attach.
We would see the sadc spiking there.
 $ pidstat 5
In terms of general system check since we can't rely on systat you could use and attach a report of the same time with "dstat -tvin"
Open a new bug with all that and feel free to subscribe me right away.
With that data we can start to make theories, but it is not this old issue here.