Hi guys is it normal to have 5-10 cron/syslog processes running... in my case i got 10 cron process running.
Yes, cron runs all the demands of all the users. Syslog, not sure, may fork for each file it writes and for forwarding to remote hosts.
thanks for the reply... so meaning if i have 5 users who runs a cronjob at the same time i 5 cron processes will also run?
If the user does not & the cron proc and its sh that runs cron line cmd field is still on the hook. Proceses are cheap. If it spits out any stdout/stderrr, someone has to mail it to you.
you can also check /var/log/cron to check what exactly is running, in regular idling only 1 crond process should be