NTP, and gccadmin's crontab about to be activated

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > And update_web_docs, but that should be much faster on the new machine,
> > and be finished long before GDB's crontab starts.
> 
> The current schedule was carefully arranged and for good a reason.  It 
> balanced the system load.  GCC's task (the longest running and heavest) 
> at the time when the system had the lightest load (the middle of the 
> apec day when europe and america were in bed).

The timing of update_web_docs, if carefully arranged, was arranged when
update_web_docs was a rather smaller job (only generating HTMl manuals,
not running TeX).  But the current update_web_docs still consistently ran
in under 3 minutes on the old system, and is of course quicker on the new
one.

The only one of GCC's jobs that takes a significant amount of time is the
weekly snapshot run, at 16:40 on Mondays.  That's the only one for which
scheduling the time not to clash with other jobs is important.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk