# Logstash slow in bash script launch by cronjob
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103 "2022-03-08T14:14:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Henri\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henri_L)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/1 "2022-03-08T14:14:26Z")
Hi I have a bash script like that:
```auto
#!/bin/bash
cat /home/xxx/public_html/datas/zz/file.csv | /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /home/xxx/public_html/datas/myconf.conf
```
My conf file is basic like that:
```auto
input {
stdin {}
}
filter {
csv {
columns => [
"id","link","title","description","hashdesc","publicationDate","geo_lat","geo_lng","city","postalCode","department","region","sector","jobtitle","company","contractType","salary","affiliateCpc"
]
separator => ","
skip_empty_columns => false
}
mutate {
add_field => {
"[pin][location][lat]" => "%{geo_lat}"
"[pin][location][lon]" => "%{geo_lng}"
}
}
mutate {
convert => {
"[pin][location][lat]" => "float"
"[pin][location][lon]" => "float"
"[cpc]" => "float"
}
}
mutate {
remove_field => ["message", "host", "@version", "path", "geo_lng", "geo_lat", "event", "log"]
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => "http://localhost:9200"
index => "jobs3"
document_id => "%{guid}"
timeout => 30
workers => 1
doc_as_upsert => true
action => "update"
}
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}
```
This work perfectly with the shell but when I try to call this script in a cronjob it take a lot of time....
Any idea to speed up the cronjob like in the shell?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/2 "2022-03-08T14:47:19Z")
How much is _a lot of time_ in this case? And what is your cron schedule?
Logstash can take a couple of time to start, this is expected, if this is an issue you should try to run logstash as a service and change your pipeline to read from files.
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### Author:  [@Henri\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henri_L)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/3 "2022-03-08T14:49:08Z")
With the shell it take 5 minutes and with cron one hour and 30 min
Cron schedule each 4 hours
My cron is call like that
`bin/bash /home/xxx/public_html/datas/elasticsearch/jobs.sh`
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/4 "2022-03-08T15:14:21Z")
What version are you using and what is the server specs?
A start up time of 5 minutes is too long, but it could happen in some versions depending on the specs, there is an [old issue](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5507) about it related to jruby and the entropy of the system, but I did not experience this behavior in new versions.
But 1 hour and 30 minutes does not make much sense.
How are you measuring this time? Can you share logstash logs when it starts?
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### Author:  [@Henri\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henri_L)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/5 "2022-03-08T16:03:41Z")
No the start up of logstash take 5 seconds only, 5 minutes if for the script with 600000 new entries.
I monitor the cron time easily I check the start and when the entries are in Elasticsearch... So 1h30 is approximate but significantly more than 5 minutes with the run in console.
Maybe losgstah is depriorize by cron, I have no idea
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### Author:  [@Henri\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henri_L)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/6 "2022-03-08T16:18:58Z")
I found the problem. It was the output in cron the bottleneck
`stdout { codec => rubydebug }`
I simply remove the stdout and cron works like the shell way
Thanks for your help
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-slow-in-bash-script-launch-by-cronjob/299103/7 "2022-04-05T16:19:30Z")
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