cron / server load
 

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.

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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.

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

I am gonna shoot a load on you

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

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

thanks for all the help guys :thumbsup

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?

promises, promises :Graucho