Re: Should we add jitter to cron(8) ?

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> A) By default cron(8) waits [0...N] seconds before executing commands.
>    This can be disabled with a command line option.
>    For a number of reasons which we can hash later, I suggest N=30
>
> B) Same as A), but the command line option enables jitter.
>
> C) Same as A), but with additional crontab(5) syntax to say "dont
>    jitter this particular entry".
>
> I would argue that A is the proper choice.

For years I've been running cron on my FreeBSD servers with:  /usr/sbin/cron -j 10 -J 10 -s
An option to disable it for specific jobs would be handy though.

Cheers, Jamie