[Spacewalk-list] Schedling & Action Chain Timing Question

[Matt Bayliss]

I scheduled a jobs on the morning of the 17th December to execute the
following morning at 9AM, it seems that although the rhnsd interval is set
to 240 [1] the job was not picked up and executed until approx 28 hours
after I created the schedule.

[1] # cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
INTERVAL=240


    Summary:
    Package Install scheduled by swadmin
    Details:
    This action will be executed after 12/18/14 9:00:00 AM GMT
    This action's status is: Completed.
    The client picked up this action on 12/18/14 3:03 PM
    The client completed this action on 12/18/14 3:05 PM
    Client execution returned "Update Succeeded" (code 0)
    Packages Scheduled:
        nss-util-3.16.2.3-2.el6_6.x86_64
        rpm-python-4.8.0-38.el6_6.x86_64
        rpm-4.8.0-38.el6_6.x86_64
        system-config-firewall-base-1.2.27-7.2.el6_6.noarch
        selinux-policy-3.7.19-260.el6_6.1.noarch
        nss-3.16.2.3-3.el6_6.x86_64
        nss-sysinit-3.16.2.3-3.el6_6.x86_64
        rpm-build-4.8.0-38.el6_6.x86_64
        nss-tools-3.16.2.3-3.el6_6.x86_64
        ruby-1.8.7.374-3.el6_6.x86_64
        ruby-libs-1.8.7.374-3.el6_6.x86_64
        rpm-libs-4.8.0-38.el6_6.x86_64
        selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-260.el6_6.1.noarch
    Time:
    12/18/14 9:00:00 AM GMT

Also, this job was pard of an action chain to reboot the system when the
package update was complete (not necessary but I wanted to test it) this
was not completed until 4-5 hours after the package update which would have
only taken a few minutes.  I'm surprised that this didn't happen
immediately afterward.

Summary:
System reboot scheduled by mattb
Details:
This action will be executed after 12/18/14 9:00:00 AM GMT
This action's status is: Completed.
The client picked up this action on 12/18/14 3:05 PM
The client completed this action on 12/18/14 7:48 PM
Client execution returned "null" (code null)
Time:
12/18/14 9:00:00 AM GMT

Am I misunderstanding how the scheduler works?  I won't be able to rely on
this in production if I can't predict with some accuracy when the jobs will
execute.

Regards,
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