The trick to do "task || task" in cron did work several times.
I am very grateful but (would you believe it) only yesterday the system was moved onto something with far more memory. :-(
I doubt it will suffer the problem again. If this becomes an issue for others I would be happy to set-up a machine to try the patch out.
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