Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

On 2019-08-06 13:43, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:29:41PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > And finally, the load spikes: Upthread it was mentioned that
> > RandomizedDelaySec exists. Generally this should be sufficient to even 
> > out
> > such effects. I understand that there is a case where you run a lot of
> > unrelated VMs that you cannot control. In other cases, like laptops 
> > and
> > desktops, it is very likely much more efficient to generate the load 
> > spike
> > and complete the task as fast as possible in order to return to the
> > low-power state of (effectively) waiting for input.
>
> This assumes the system has enough RAM and other ressources to complete
> all the jobs in parallel.

We are talking about cron.*. I feel like that's more of a scheduling 
problem. If you run a constrained machine, I'm sure you are already 
doing customization to accommodate to the shortage and you would not 
want the background cron jobs to kill your production workload?

Apart from the fact that systemd actually lets you limit the resource 
usage/declare what to prioritize. If you go the route of separate timers 
even on a per script basis.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern