bin/66474: [patch] add jitter to cron(8) to smooth load spikes

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

The following reply was made to PR bin/66474; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/66474: [patch] add jitter to cron(8) to smooth load spikes
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:39:49 +0400 (MSD)

 On Mon, 10 May 2004 FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 
 Minor correction [do_command.c]: sleep part moved earlier to improve logging.
 
 Sincerely,
 D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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 *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck at rinet.ru ***
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 Index: usr.sbin/cron/cron/do_command.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/cron/cron/do_command.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.15.2.6
 diff -u -r1.15.2.6 do_command.c
 --- usr.sbin/cron/cron/do_command.c	22 Jun 2003 18:49:39 -0000	1.15.2.6
 +++ usr.sbin/cron/cron/do_command.c	10 May 2004 15:36:10 -0000
 @@ -166,6 +166,11 @@
  		Debug(DPROC, ("[%d] grandchild process Vfork()'ed\n",
  			      getpid()))
 
 +		if (Jitter != 0) {
 +			srandom(getpid());
 +			sleep(random() % Jitter);
 +		}
 +
  		/* write a log message.  we've waited this long to do it
  		 * because it was not until now that we knew the PID that
  		 * the actual user command shell was going to get and the