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Re: PROPOSAL to serialize cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}



On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 06:54:34PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 10:47:35 -0500 Steve Greenland wrote:
> > [...]
> > (... If the general consensus is that
> > chaining the daily->weekly->monthly jobs is a good idea, I'll happily
> > make the changes in the cron package.)
> 
> I would say this serialization is a good idea and worth the effort, on the
> basis of system load and machine stress considerations alone.

The opposite is true on hardware capable of true parallel
operation. So once again that appears to be a matter for local
configuration.

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