On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 12:00, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Entelin wrote: > > > If you had thousands of users and wanted each to have a job that ran > > every say every 5 mins, would cron still be the best bet? > > Is it the same task for all users? > yeah more or less, its a theroetical question. Same task, same interval, but I dont want it to happen for all the users at the same time since thats not very efficient, I want it spread out where all the users have their interval at different start times. > Depending on the task, it may be better to have one program to run that > does the task for everyone (instead of starting up the program thousands > of times) each five minutes. yeah it might be the way to go. > Jeremy C. Reed > > BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links > http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Entelin --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss