Cron Task Malways overloads CPU weekly

[RFor]

Hi, once a week a cron task called Malways starts running and eventually enough processes are opened to overload the CPU and take the site off line. Only a restart of Apache\MySQL brings it back up. The machine has plenty of CPU and RAM, more than enough actually.

Does anyone know exactly what this process does and what would remedy this situation?

Thanks

[iweb_smartie]

Can you let us know what module this comes from?

[RFor]

How can I tell which module it comes from?

[iweb_smartie]

Well, where did you find out that it was called Malways?

[RFor]

There where dozens of processes running like this:

xxx     18663     1  3 13:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/php /home/xxx/public_html/cron.php -malways

[Ben Marks]

malways is really m=always, which is one of the modes for executing the scheduled job system.

You should check this answer at the Magento StackExchange site, as well as review an informational post by David Algar.