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I Am The Walrus · 08-31-2003, 01:05 PM

is there a way to work out how much additional server strain a cron job will put on a server?

say i only want to cron a single script every 5 - 10 - 15 - 20 mins or whatever is there a forumula to work out the additional server load time?

tia.

I Am The Walrus · 08-31-2003, 01:11 PM

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swedguy · 08-31-2003, 01:36 PM

Put this in your crontab....

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*/5 * * * * time /path/to/script.pl

An email will be sent to you every 5 minutes with how much cpu time the script used.

cyberpunk · 08-31-2003, 02:29 PM

the load will depend on what yoru doing, cron itself isn;t goign to casue much load

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rudeboi · 08-31-2003, 04:56 PM

You could setup Larrd and have it keep track of server load on 1-5 minute increments and graph them.

keyDet79 · 08-31-2003, 05:04 PM

Cron will not stress the server, the script it executes will. Log into the shell, type top and monitor the load the script causes.

I Am The Walrus · 08-31-2003, 05:43 PM

thanks for all the help guys

so basically, lets say my script i am going to be running cron on is 5k that will be a 5k call each time a cron is run on it correct?

I Am The Walrus · 08-31-2003, 05:44 PM

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I Am The Walrus Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,000	thanks for all the help guys so basically, lets say my script i am going to be running cron on is 5k that will be a 5k call each time a cron is run on it correct?