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

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:23:38 +0200 Thomas Hood wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:10:07 +0200, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
> OK. But then there is still the problem of conflicting concurrent jobs...

But cron isn't the only possible source of conflicting concurrent jobs...

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