From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 3 01:21:30 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58F2CBEEB9 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2017 01:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [23.235.65.90]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF6A6E3E for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2017 01:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from 254-68-235-23.haidagwaii.net ([23.235.68.254] helo=[192.168.1.8]) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cZSUk-0001kD-7x; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:16:58 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Pazarena Subject: atrun utility Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:16:48 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-local_scan: locally submitted (54) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:21:30 -0000 I cannot understand why my batch jobs do not run promptly. For example I have a system load showing as: root@:/etc # w 5:04PM up 87 days, 3:15, 1 user, load averages: 1.14, 1.17, 1.12 So ~ 1.2 I have /etc/crontab with: # #minute hour mday month wday who command # * * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun -l 4.5 So you would think that my batch jobs would trigger, one every minute. But they do not. Eventually they run, but I cannot figure out for rhyme or reason what gets them running any more than I can figure out why they do not. Any clues would be greatly appreciated. -- Jim Pazarena fquest@paz.bz