New Rule about crons

[Corey]

Please, if you are going to use the cron function in your cPanel do not set it to run every minute. I really can not think of any good reason that you would need a cron to run EVERY minute. Also, please do not set them if you're not going to use them!

If for some reason you need your cron to run every minute please contact me otherwise I will be suspending people that are doing this. Can you imagine what would happen if 1,000 people all wanted to run a cron every minute? Yeah.. not good

-Corey

[Chris Z]

Haha, ya I can't see why anyone would need to run a cron tab every minute either. That's good that you're trying to keep the resource use down though. :-D

[nol888]

I myself can't see why you'd REALLY need a cron to run at all, it's just a web hosting service.

Well, maybe you can use it for automated backups or something.

[lionheart8]

I myself can't see why you'd REALLY need a cron to run at all, it's just a web hosting service.

Well, maybe you can use it for automated backups or something.

Well, there are many legitimate uses for cron like if say one is using rss to get news - to keep the database up to date, or one has a search function & many other functions e.g. on a community or similar site (at least for Drupal CMS). These however can be set to be managed by a cron Drupal module. My cron runs once an hour.

As Corey says the problem is not using cron, but making it run too often.

[Brandon]

Another good reason for a cron is on the status site, there is a cron every 15 minutes that updates the cached server status.

[toofani]

Well, there are many legitimate uses for cron like if say one is using rss to get news - to keep the database up to date, or one has a search function & many other functions e.g. on a community or similar site (at least for Drupal CMS). These however can be set to be managed by a cron Drupal module. My cron runs once an hour.

As Corey says the problem is not using cron, but making it run too often.

thats true..there is no need to run every mint..is it??:dunno::nuts:

[zmama]

I have a question about this. I'm hosting a very small game, and run a cron job to update the stats for the game. What would be an acceptable number of minutes to run the cron job? Right now I run it every 5 minutes (I was testing to try to fix a problem). This often is better for the game, but every 10 or 15 would work, too. Is that acceptable? Don't want to use too many resources. :D

Thanks!

[Corey]

Every 5 minutes is fine.

[zmama]

Thank you :D

[kajasweb]

I'm running Drupal 5.2 in my site. I need to run a cron every 12 hours. But, the notification just states Fatal Error, Memory exhausted. Why is it so? Can you please raise the memory limit of 8 MB to something higher..

Thanks in advance..