Re: Cron

["Stefan Waidele jun." <Stefan@Waidele.net>]

Tom wrote:
> [...]
> Or, thinking a bit, why not alloc 1440 bits, and once a day process 
> all the files, setting a bit for which minute to wake up, and when I 
> wake up, walk forward for the next set bit, and sleep that many minutes?
> Do it all again if the files change...

So you have to monitor file-changes which is quite expensive.
And you have to monitor changes to /etc/cron.d* which is even more 
expensive.

When will that 'dayly process' which does the calculations run? What 
happens if the computer is down at that time?

So like you said: Much work, little (or negative) gain!
You will probably need more resoures than without 'optimization' :)

Stefan