Cron starts up, but does not have time to work out.
Today the cron was launched by hand and worked, Work time: 19,304.44 s
19.304.44s = 5.36 hours.
At night, the crown does not have so much time, because. the software update script is launched and "kills" all running crons.
By running sudo -s you have promoted yourself to root.
If you are running anything in a box, it must be from the correct user, because there may be unexpected problems.
If you manually run the cron, then wait for it to complete.
If short:
SWAP (swap) is a virtual memory mechanism in which part of the data from random access memory (RAM) is moved to storage on the HDD (hard disk), SSD (solid state drive).
In Linux, RAM (RAM, random access memory) is divided into sections called pages. Swapping is a process during which pages of memory are copied to a specially configured disk partition called swap space (the swap partition can be either a file or a hard disk partition) to free up RAM. The combined sizes of physical memory and swap partition is the amount of virtual memory available.
If there is a desire to delve deeper into the essence, then here is an article that, in my opinion, very well explains some of the intricacies of working with memory in Linux.
https://habr.com/ru/company/flant/blog/348324/