A recent problem which was reported in my drupal logs and subsequently was solved may be of interest to the community.
The logs reported....

cron 28/01/2008 - 17:54 Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running. wellsy

It also gave similar entries when the script was run automatically by the cron schedule I have setup.

This went on for a few days and no matter what I tried (or the site5 techs) the problem could not be rectified.
The site5 techs assured me the cron.php script was not running on the server.

So I thought that maybe the error message was in error itself and had me (and the site5 techs) on the wrong track.

I did some more investigating in the database and noted that the problem started right after
I had created some VERY LARGE nodes. It appears that the cron.php process was stalling when trying to update the search data when reading these VERY LARGE nodes.

I deleted these pages immediately and the cron.php script ran successfully and continues to do so.

Comments

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wellsy commented

this same issue may have been around for quite some time.

I posted this http://drupal.org/node/65968 a long time ago and now that I think about it I had some HUGE nodes in that site.

wellsy’s picture

wellsy commented

I guess this problem is of no concern to anyone here.

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dpearcefl commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Considering the time elapsed between now and the last comment plus the fact that D5 is no longer supported, I am closing this ticket.