On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Michael Haardt wrote:
> > If you specify say -q5m, does that mean that the daemon runs the queue
> > at 0, 5, 10, etc minutes past the hour, or is it 5, 10, etc minutes
> > after the process was started.
> >
> > If it is the latter (and in my mind more likely) case, then surely the
> > machines are out of sync with each other anyway?
>
> I think it is the latter, but that does not matter: The clocks are
> synchronised with NTP, so the first case would be a problem. If the
> configuration changes, all machines reload it at once, so all master
> processes start at once.
The daemon starts a queue runner when it starts up, and thereafter at
the given intervals, so yes, it is the latter.
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