Cron Job Frequency

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palmere
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Cron Job Frequency

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I set up MailGust, a mySQL mailing list server and it requires a cron job to send the mailings out automatically. I won't be used all that often, though once a mail is sent out, I would like it to be relatively soon thereafter.

My question: how often is too often to have a cron job be run? All it's doing is parsing a php page. Would every 30 minutes be too conservative?

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Weirdan
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Post by Weirdan »

I think 30 minutes would be ok... if that isn't urgent mail of course ;)
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Post by SBukoski »

I have a cronjon that runs every 5 minutes on my site. It's not really any different than a user accessing 1 php page on your site every 5 minutes.
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