Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > A) By default cron(8) waits [0...N] seconds before executing commands. > This can be disabled with a command line option. > For a number of reasons which we can hash later, I suggest N=30 > > B) Same as A), but the command line option enables jitter. > > C) Same as A), but with additional crontab(5) syntax to say "dont > jitter this particular entry". > > I would argue that A is the proper choice.
For years I've been running cron on my FreeBSD servers with: /usr/sbin/cron -j 10 -J 10 -s An option to disable it for specific jobs would be handy though. Cheers, Jamie
