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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For some reason that I am having trouble understanding, if I use Forks in my CFG file, the logic that prevents a second MRTG from starting up if the first hasn't finish doesn't work.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Case A: no Forks statement. Cron set to start CFG file every 5 minutes. Job usually takes 12 minutes. Attempts to start at +5 and +10 minutes are blocked, generating "hanging around" messages.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Case B: Forks: 4. Cron set to start CFG file every 5 minutes. Don't know how long job should take; usually end up with 3 or more jobs running at the same time.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can someone explain to me why this is, and if there is something I can to do fix it? I need to get poll cycles down under 5 minutes, and I was planning to use forks for that. The server has lots of resources available, but some of my targets take a long time to fail to respond, so the overall time for a cycle is fairly large. Manually breaking the CFG up into units is a lot of extra bother I would like to avoid as this is a dynamically built file based on what devices are on the network today.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MRTG 2.15.2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Solaris 10/ Sun T2000 server</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Arial">Benjamin k Grossman</FONT></B>
<BR><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Network Tools Sachem</FONT></I>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">King County OIRM</FONT>
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