Re: Cron for thousands of users?

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
>

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