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Wed Jul 5 18:15:18 IST 2006

user's crontab, Vixie Cron 3.0pl1-57.3), if you set a job for the next
minute, the job won't run, but will if you set it for a minute after
that.

i.e. you write a crontab at 10:37:xx and set the job for 10:38, it
won't run - It's got to be set for 10:39.

That was my experience anyway, at did took me a while to work out why
my job wasn't running.

hth,
Alan.

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:03:17PM +0100, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> It does & it doesn't.   It depends on the job really... if it's a job that
> uses a hell of a lot of cpu & memory when you run it manually, it's going to
> do the same when run from the crontab.
> 
> crond checks the crontabs every minute regardless of whether you have 1 job
> scheduled or 50, so in this respect you're not going to increase the load on
> your system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ruairí
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adam beecher" <adam at iewebs.com>
> To: "CLUG" <cork at linux.ie>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 5:34 PM
> Subject: [CLUG] Cron job
> 
> 
> > Is there a limit to how often you can run a cron job? I know one of my
> > machines runs one every five minutes, but does that affect performance?
> >
> 
> 
> 
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