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Why? Starting a process at random seems like a one off thing.
by tannhaeuser 3y ago
Why? Starting a process at random seems like a one off thing.
- Dylan16807 3y agoIf it's a one-off then you rarely need randomization. For scheduled tasks, you often want randomization so that your fleet of servers is not all doing the task at the exact same time. Think "start between 2am and 4am every day". You can work around it by picking an offset at install time like scheduling for 3:17am in particular on this server, or by putting a random sleep into the job, but both of those obfuscate the actual scheduling intent.