Re: Cron for thousands of users?

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Entelin wrote:

> If you had thousands of users and wanted each to have a job that ran
> every say every 5 mins, would cron still be the best bet?

Is it the same task for all users?

Depending on the task, it may be better to have one program to run that
does the task for everyone (instead of starting up the program thousands
of times) each five minutes.

Jeremy C. Reed

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