Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Bruno Wolff III <>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:08:28PM -0500,
 Scott Koranda 
<>
 wrote:
> Understood.
>
> This issue is that we want the loader jobs to run as often as possible
> to help beat down provisioning latency. But at certain times of the
> year (when semesters turn over) the amount of work, and hence the
> amount of time it takes for the loader job to run, spikes. The danger
> then is that two instances run at the same time.
>
> I do not see how to reconcile those requirements/needs with CRON so I
> was testing the START_TO_START_INTERVAL functionality, but I did not
> expect random start times.
>
> I appreciate any recommendations you can make.

If you have systemd on these machines, you might consider using a timer 
unit. It looks like you should be able to specify a delay since the 
last run of the unit finished before restarting it. That would avoid 
overlapping runs.