On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Sort of thinking out loud, but looking for suggestions/ideas ... > > So I have a host with 20 containers and each of these 'servers' runs cron > jobs - and one of them is to do an MRTG run every 5 minutes, so every 5 > minutes, ka-chung, 20 jobs start at the same time which sort of has a bit > of a crowbarring effect...
You could fudge it. For instance, I have two cron jobs that I want to run on alternate minutes. I give these as (in an /etc/cron.d file, thus the userid): */2 * * * * userid do_the_first_thing */2 * * * * userid sleep 60;do_the_second_thing There may well be an elegant way to do it, which this is not, but it does work to stagger jobs. Whit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
