On 21 Apr, 15:29, crym...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have had the following appear on the same 5.0.6 server twice now in
> the last two weeks. When it happens some cron items still run, but a
> lot of them fail to start - and we also get a lot of defunct processes
> appearing (see below.)
>
> Any ideas of where I would start to look to find what is causing
> this.

Keith,

My guess is that this is most likely a filesystem corruption issue.
Check your log files to see if there are any indications of
disk failures.

John