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Subject: Re: Jailed periodic daily scripts smashing CPU
To: Dustin Wenz <dustinwenz@ebureau.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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Dustin Wenz wrote on 2017/02/16 22:47:
> I have a number of servers with roughly 60 jails running on each of them. On these hosts

60 is way more than we have on our jailers. Daily / security scripts are 
very disk IO intensive so we end up with changing time in /etc/crontab 
in each jail for periodic tasks.

The best way is to randomize these times on jail creation time.

Miroslav Lachman