Suitecrm: Intermittent cron setup will increase time between jobs

[JimMackin]

Not sure if this is a bug or not but if the user has set cron up with something like */3 * * * * and a job is set up to run every two minutes then, due to how SuiteCRM checks the times, this will only run every 6 minutes.

You could possibly work around this by using the Execute if missed option but this could be problematic if the job takes a while to run.

Not sure if it's possible to detect if a job has been missed versus whether the cron hasn't run at the specified time.

[shogunpol]

@JimMackin , The issue has been tested in recent version of SuiteCRM(7.7.8), and not appear, can you confirm it, if yes can you close an issue please.

[JimMackin]

Still occurs for me on a fresh install of 7.7.8. Created a scheduler to run every two minutes and set cron to run every three minutes (admittedly not an ideal setup). The job still runs every six minutes. See here:

[JimMackin]

@shogunpol As you mentioned my initial example doesn't make much sense since it's not possible for two jobs to run more often that every six minutes. I'll add a better example.

[JimMackin]

@shogunpol See here for a clearer example. I have cron running every 4 minutes and the job runs every 7 minutes. The issue here is that the job will only run when the minute is a multiple of both 7 and 4.

This means that the job will only run at 28 and 56 minutes past the hour. See the example below.

[Mausino]

@JimMackin @Dillon-Brown @samus-aran

I looked on latest version of 7.10.11 and i don't see that not working and i think was fixed.
All my schedulers when are set up for example in interval hour.. in the log are records with hour interval if 5 min there are every 5 min.

I think this issue is expired and unrelevant. Should be closed.