[php-maint] Bug#633100: Bug#633100: Bug#633100: php5-common: /etc/cron.d/php5 script runs find with fuser process which spawns too much process eats up the system

[Thomas Goirand]

On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> severity 633100 minor
> *Hi,*
> *
> *I am sorry, but no size fits all, if you have a busy system you ought
> to tweak the default settings. Data integrity is more important than
> performance.*
> *
> *
> *I will make this more clear in the documentation, but the fuser stays
> as it is unless somebody can come up with smarter solution.
> *
> Ondřej Surý
> 
> On 8.7.2011, at 14:12, ile <kanisystem at gmail.com
>> fuser can spawn 20000 or more processes making the system unstable

I'm sorry, but spawning 20 000 processes doesn't seem exactly a "minor"
issue to me. What are the conditions for this to happen?

Thomas