[Bug 1582692] Re: OOM using CRON but not using SHELL under 16.04

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Can you reproduce it with other java programs?
* Can you reproduce it with a smaller -Xmx?
* What specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

Please provide:

* How much RAM your system has (so I can try to simulate the % of used and available RAM)
* Your crontab and under which user it is being run
* (If at all possible) a sample of the program you are trying to run (or the program + settings)

This will help us to find and resolve the problem, as I have been so far
unable to reproduce it.

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  OOM using CRON but not using SHELL under 16.04

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When I start a java program with high memory usage ("-Xmx52g") by
  shell, everything is working well. However if I start the same program
  with the same command and same user by CRON, I get a
  java.lang.OutOfMemoryError just after a few seconds.

  Additionally CRON isn't able to do anything as long as I don't kill
  the blocked java program. No matter which cronjob should be started,
  it always ends up with "(CRON) error (can't fork)" in syslog. After
  killing the java program all new cronjobs are working fine again.

  The problem only occurs with Ubuntu 16.04, all older versions worked
  very well.

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