Bug#850435: starts daily, weekly, monthly targets at midnight

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:29:19PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > However, daily|weekly|monthly are started together at midnight, while
> > the classic crond/anacron setup starts them in a staggered way which
> > helps keeping the load spike low.
> 
> That's sort of funny, because systemd likes to move timers closer
> together (with AccuracySec) in order to minimize the time where the
> system is not idle, or something like that :)

While this would be fine for the common developer notebook, it would
kill big virtualized server farms.

> Different priorities I guess?

Different use cases. Blick over Tellerrand needed.

Greetings
Marc

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