On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 06:51:36PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The get_random_minute() method was created to allow maintenance > schedules to be fixed to a random minute of the hour. This randomness is > only intended to spread out the load from a number of clients, but each > client should have an hour between each maintenance cycle. > > Use get_random_minute() when constructing the schedules for launchctl. > > The format already includes a 'Minute' key which is modified from 0 to > the random minute. All looks good. I was wondering if this is something that we'd want to allow users to opt out of, but I think that the built-in schedules are sufficiently vague that we can afford to have a fudge factor on the exact minute. Thanks, Taylor
