Cron Job

Howdy,

Using the defaults and instialtion directions we are told to setup a cron job that runs once every minute.

Does anyone know if problems would arise if the cron job was changed to run once every 5 minuits? That would reduce cron induced server load to 1/5 of what it is now.

If cron is cleaning out database 'garbage' every minuit then this reduce the effectiveness of mysql's caches as when a table is changed any cached queries has to be rebuilt next time requested.

I bring this up because I noticed a lot of quires to the database when I enabled full logging to track down an issue with a users album that keeps getting deleted.

I have logged over 66,253 queries in about 20 minuits. Dolphin is the only thing using this database server.

I believe the mass mailer will be delayed by five minutes, as will video processing, but I consider it an adequate trade-off. I usually set my cron jobs to run anywhere from every five minutes to every hour, depending on the site and its purpose. I don't recommend setting them to run every minute on a shared server, or else you'll run into issues.