Comment 9 for bug 1246098
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| Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote Re: [Bug 1246098] Re: MIR: pollinate | #9 |
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Dustin Kirkland
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Seth Arnold <email address hidden> wrote:
>> - pollinate cronjob runs every "random number of minutes" due to
>> */__RAND__ use. Even */0 can be generated, this probably runs every
>> minute. Or kills cron. :) But */2 or */3 would probably generate
>> way too much load on our servers.
>
> I fixed the bug here. Basically, I'd like this cronjob to run once
> per hour, at a regular interval, on every client that installs this
> package. However, I'd like to spread the load evenly on the entropy
> server, so that every single client doesn't hit the server at the same
> minute. So at package installation time (postinst), I'd like this
> particular install of the client to randomly choose the minute upon
> which it runs.
Committed revision 170.