Last modified: 2014-05-10 08:37:15 UTC
Every once in a while I see that we have to remind people to only use cronjobs when appropriate, and to in many circumstances switch to Open Grid Engine. Could we build in reminders or discouragements to help them do the right thing? Or add monitoring to notice when someone is using cron more often or more heavily than they ought to, and shoot them a notification?
You still need cron jobs to submit the Open Grid Engine jobs...
Test for every-minute cron jobs: | sudo find /var/spool/cron/crontabs -type f -not -name root -exec grep '^ *\* \+\* ' \{\} +
The new submit-host cron system forces jobs to be sent to the grid. While it is not currently the default (and I've had no time to push for this yet), it is intended to entirely replace the current local cron system with the latter being disabled for endusers.
That system is now the default, and running cron jobs locally requires a positive action.
