freebsd-dev/usr.sbin/periodic
Alan Somers 86571b9c01 Consolidate random sleeps in periodic scripts
Multiple periodic scripts sleep for a random amount of time in order to
mitigate the thundering herd problem. This is bad, because the sum of
multiple uniformly distributed random variables approaches a normal
distribution, so the problem isn't mitigated as effectively as it would be
with a single sleep.

This change creates a single configurable anticongestion sleep. periodic
will only sleep if at least one script requires it, and it will never sleep
more than once per invocation. It also won't sleep if periodic was run
interactively, fixing an unrelated longstanding bug.

PR:		217055
PR:		210188
Reviewed by:	cy
MFC after:	3 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10211
2017-04-01 04:42:35 +00:00
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Makefile
Makefile.depend
periodic.8 Better document security_show_{success,info,badconfig} in /etc/periodic.conf 2016-05-21 02:14:11 +00:00
periodic.sh Consolidate random sleeps in periodic scripts 2017-04-01 04:42:35 +00:00