[support] cron job crashing server, and how many users is too many?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Grandmother Spider <gs at grandmother-spider.com>:

> I have a Drupal cron job (4.7) that crashes the web server--just hangs
> but never returns a specific error message; if I let it run, it just
> churns. I've let it go for five minutes before finally shutting it
> down. Its hanging brings down the whole shooting match. The logs tell
> me only that a segmentation fault occurred.
>

Which logs?  Does it say what is having the segmentation fault?  Since 
Drupal is using interpreted code your issue isn't directly related to 
Drupal but to the third party applications it uses.  Contact me off 
list if you feel you need to.

Earnie