[UCIMC-Tech] heads-up on cron jobs on zeco

[Josh King]

Hi Barry,

That shouldn't be a problem. I actually would recommend running any 
other time but around 11pm-1am, as that's when the backup scripts run 
and are usually pretty resource intensive.

Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I plan to a small number (one to three)  of low-intensity cron jobs on 
> my zeco account (user barryi privileges), once a day. At worst, might 
> serially parse  200-1000 tiny (2 KB) files, and send around 0 - 5 
> emails, once a day.   The parsed file count might not even grow that 
> high, before this count grows to 50 or so, I'll likely soon replace the 
> text file parse with an msql query to a tiny database, a  I've already 
> tried a teensy test job (appends date to file) and works just fine.
> 
>  Thought I'd give y'all a heads up, don't want to get in the way of 
> server activities.  If there's any time in the 12:30 am - 4 am range 
> you'd prefer I run the job(s), let me know. (e.g. 'don't run at 12:05, 
> when other stuff is running')
> 
>         Cheers,
> 
>         Barry

-- 
Josh King
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