Re: Should packages depend on cron?

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mozcom.com>]

On 23 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote:

> [...] I forgot to write: the (an)cron jobs
> cron.daily etc should be run at high nice (6 or so), so that they
> won't be noticed.

I think someone made the point several days ago that niceing cron
jobs doesn't do much good if they're disk-intensive, as they tend
to be.  Niced or not, they'll still clog up the disk-access bottleneck
and slow down everything else which needs to access the disk.



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