Jeremy Domingue wrote:
>
> Other than that, is there a way to mimize the spikes that crontab causes
> without modifying the amount/types of programs that it runs?
>
Try distributing the cron jobs more evenly in time. Many/heavy
jobs running in the same time may generate a lot of swapping,
which can bring the machine to it's knees (but it won't die :)
If a single job is heavy enough to give one of those spikes, you
may try running the jobs at a lower priority using nice. This
would make the life easier to the users logged in, but it may
also generate heavy swapping.
If swapping is your problem, consider getting more RAM (xosview
or top shows you the swap usage).
dan
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