NTP, and gccadmin's crontab about to be activated

[Andrew Cagney]

> 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.

Ah!  Ok, ignore me then :-)

> 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.

Andrew