[OSM-Devserver] proposal for a?poor?mans?batch?processing?system ?:)

[Sven Geggus]

Nop <ekkehart at gmx.de> wrote:

> The original plan was to start the import by cron job when the upload of 
> the data is complete. It would be great if there was a way to delay the 
> start of my import until there's no load on the server but I have no 
> idea how to script that. 

This is exactly what batch(1) does. Run a job if load is below a given
threshold  .

> Another option would be a daily 2 hour 
> timeslice well offset from the other jobs that is only used once a week.

AIO should be finished in the early evening hours. Thus you can just pick
one.

As Jochen already suggested. You should definitely start a Wiki page with
all the jobs and when they are run.

Sven

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