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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:43:01 +0900 (JST)
From:      Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ways to help investigating behavior of periodic scripts
Message-ID:  <20171031.174301.1258442492129242359.yasu@utahime.org>
In-Reply-To: <656232e3-33bc-2301-ab4a-b6f390cbe581@qeng-ho.org>
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From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Subject: Re: Ways to help investigating behavior of periodic scripts
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:02:50 +0000

> If you're using the pkg system (which most people do) then the periodic
> script
> 
> /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit
> 
> has at line 60
> 
> sleep `jot -r 1 0 3600`
> 
> which sleeps for a random time between 0 seconds and 1 hour. This is to
> avoid the "thundering herd" problem at the servers, and obviously can
> cause the completion time to jitter by up to an hour.

Yes, pkg is installed on my home server. So this is probably what I
would like to investigate. Thank you for letting me know.

---
Yasuhiro KIMURA



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