Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2

On a server with heavy cron use (a few thousand entries across cron.d /
users, several runs per second, a few dozen forks running at any given
time), cron will creep up in memory usage.  Last I saw was 6GB RSS, at
which point it will start doing:

Jul  6 07:01:27 host cron[21699]: (CRON) error (can't fork)

Not all runs will fail, but this trend will continue until cron is
restarted.

** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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  High memory and "can't fork" on heavy long-lived cron daemon

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