Fedora

Hello, I have several cron jobs scheduled but looking at the results of running I see in some cases it takes more than 2 seconds, is there any way to adjust the accuracy of execution of cron?
Is there any other tool or way to fix the problem?

Whats 2 seconds ??? peanuts!
Try to reproduce the same case twice, then you will realise how difficult it can be... for you say nothing about your boxes, what they are running how many users, are there concurent cron jobs scheduled?, any network issue at that time?, was someone printing?
...

There I have one job in /etc/crontab

Code:

00 12 * * * root /script.sh

in script.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%d_%m_%Y_%_A_%T_%N`
DIR=/
echo "$DATE" > $DIR/exec

Result file exec

Code:

11_12_2013_Wednesday_12:00:01_354995160

Code:

executing stat -c "%y" exec
2013-12-11 12:00:01.360761572 -0200

At the same time it`s only 1 job running, I don`t have other jobs.
You can see the delay in the execution of more than 1 second.
There is no network problem or overload in the machine, its a virtual machine vmware running Fedora 11.

Unless you are running realtime this is normal, expected behavior.

crond runs exactly once a minute. It has to check anyone of dozens of cron entries, then exec anything that needs to start.

If you need something to execute to within nanoseconds of a time frame you will have to:
1. write C code with a realtime clock, like clock_gettime()
http://www.users.pjwstk.edu.pl/~jms/...k_gettime.html
2. have cron start your C job 1 minute early, make your C job check time constantly then execute the date command as close to the time you need.

You have a bad assumption I think.

You need to understand on a multiprocessing (not realtime) system that the scheduler tries to give all processes a shot at the cpu. That means all of the services you have running, ex.: on the zoned solaris 10 box I am on that is about 140+ processes. Many of them run at high or realtime priority, like zsched. These can preempt a cronjob at any time.

Do not attempt realtime priority on your own unless you are willing to have your code completely lock up the system. I noticed you seem to have root access, so you could do that. Given your question, this is a fair statement.

Ok I understand what you're explaining to me, but in practice I have to compile with gcc and run this source to ejectue anticipates the execution of the script before and at the time more precisely to that process is going to run it?

Which is executed by the sample source code program? as I can modify it to run my script.

thanks

Come again? I don't think that quite crossed the language barrier.

Why exactly does your compile job need to be run at exactly the correct millisecond?

Dear Corona, I need to parse some text files and send the results in more precise or approximate time, 1 second after the data no longer serve because they change constantly.