What is the maximun number of cron jobs allowed?

[Tom Ward_1]

On a 9000/800/N4000-44 running HPUX 11.00 what is the maximum number of cronjobs that can be run at one time. From looking at queuedefs it can go up to 100 if there's no entry, but what is the maximum number (if any) of jobs allowed?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Tom:

According to the 11.0 man pages it's 100.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90682/B2355-90682.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Tom,

Max is 100 total at, batch & cron jobs.
at can have up to 4 simultaneous
batch can have up to 2 at same time
cron *could* have all 100 running simultaneously.

Rgds,
Jeff

[S.K. Chan]

Yes 100 is the limit. It's a hardcoded limit if I'm not mistaken.

[harry d brown jr]

the value of nproc minus the number of existing processes. Of course other system resourses will play a role also in determining the "maximum".

live free or die
harry

[Christopher McCray_1]

Hello,

From the queuedefs man page:

njob The maximum number of jobs that can be run
simultaneously in that queue. Although any number can
be specified here, the total number of jobs that can be
run on all the queues is limited to 100.


Hope this helps

Chris

[Tom Ward_1]

Thank you all. I caught that it defaults to 100 max, but missed the line under njobs that states 100 is the maximum allowed.