Re: Does crontab jobs slow the server down?

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 11:37 AM 12/9/99 -0600, you wrote:

>Thanks for your response.  Your just talking about a slow down for the time
>during the cronjob right?
>
>Someone told me that having cronjobs in the queue to be done slows the
>server down because there is an extra 'something' running that slows the
>server down all the time.

That's true (sorta).  crond is running all the time and using resources.
But not much and you can use nice to make it take even less.  Use top to
see what's taking resources.  running crond is not noticable on any of my
machines; certainly worth whatever resources it uses.

When I run top on a much slower machine, a P90, the crond process is shown
using zero CPU cycles.

-Alan

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