collectinfo.pl - Already running

Submitted by arjones85 on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 23:53

I seem to get a lot of random email's from collectinfo.pl saying it is "Already running". See attached email capture.

Do any other virtualmin/webmin scripts call this perl script? I can never seem to pinpoint what is the cause of collectinfo.pl running for over 5 minutes before it is called again. My server's load is never particularly high at all.

I have also attached the list of cronjobs on my system, since the spacing in here was way off when I copied and pasted. There are no other changes to any of the cronjobs on this system aside from what is shown in the attachment, so cron.daily / cron.weekly etc are whatever comes standard on a standard Virtualmin GPL setup.

Thanks for your help.

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 00:36

Sounds like collectinfo.pl may be taking so long to run that it overlaps with the next run from cron, thus triggering this error.

If you run the top command, do you see it taking up a lot of CPU for a long time?

One way to avoid this would be to make collectinfo.pl run less often - this can be done at System Settings -> Module Config -> Status collection -> Interval between status collection job runs.

Submitted by arjones85 on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 22:57

Unfortunately by the time I get the email it has long passed. Next time I get the message I will double check and see what the server load is, and try to see what's going on.

Thanks!