This is strange, and I have no good explanation.

poormanscron appeared to cause a memory leak. Basically, the entire page would display fine, but the browser activity icon would stay spinning forever, and the apache.exe process (running XAMPP on Windows Vista) would eventually consume 100% of physical memory and then some. If I removed the poormanscron module, pages would load fine.

Putting the module back resumed the memory leak. Removing again made the leak disappear.

With poormanscron removed, I went to admin/reports/status and ran a cron manually. It ran fine, Apache CPU and memory usage barely did a thing.

I re-enabled poormanscron, and things run fine now.

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What other modules were running?
I am using Poormascron but I have never had this problem. It is also true I am using it on a MAMP installation, but I don't think the platform could be the cause.

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aren cambre commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I'm closing this because I cannot reproduce.

I now suspect it was probably something runaway with the Drupal cron job and not poormanscron.

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Category: bug » support
Status: Closed (fixed) » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.