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[Matt Fischer <matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A new script recently sparked a discussion on how long we should allow 
for scripts to run and also about those scripts using other resources 
like network bandwidth.  Right now we have no guidelines, but I'd like 
to start a discussion on perhaps setting some.

We had a new script recently added that was tested out at initial time 
of 2 minutes, run every 15 minutes. Much of the time the script was 
running it was waiting on I/O, but still using resources. We've since 
modified this script so that it takes 1 minute every hour, meaning it's 
2x faster and now only runs hourly.  The question is, is this quick 
enough?  Do we want to have an execution time limit in the daemon? And 
finally is it okay to have longer running scripts as long as they don't 
run on each accomplishment check?

When you think about this also consider that these scripts have to run 
on  the validation server and that's a resource that is shared with 
everyone using the system.

Thoughts?

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Matthew (Matt) Fischer
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