Any plans to introduce granularity in seconds for start time?

[munklarsen]

Hi,

First off, excellent tools you've built. Running ~25K jobs/day on a clustered setup with 4 nodes. Works great!

Secondly, I have a lot of different tasks that runs every minute and while it is not heavy for cronicle to have them run as such, the servers that actually do the processing have a tendency to be loaded for the first 10-20 seconds of each minute and then do almost nothing for the last 40-50 seconds. Are there any plans to introduce either a random wait (in seconds) to each job/task or the ability to define a start time down to the second.

I'm looking at my tasks thinking that I could easily automatically sub-devide them into 60 seconds of each minute in order to decrease load on the servers do the actual processing :)

[jhuckaby]

Thank you! That's a large install! I'm glad it's working well for you.

The answer is yes! Cronicle v2 (Orchestra) supports a "Delay" timing feature that can delay any event by N seconds. It will be released this year (2023).

[mikeTWC1984]

This could be a good idea for a plugin also. Like launching a group of events in batched with delay.
Or maybe even "chain many" feature, which could have batch/delay parameters too.