Chris- I agree with Seva about hard classes. But this makes me ask: why are you so erratically validating your promises? Why not every 5 minutes, which is the default? Cfengine is lightweight, and does not load your system. But if you have "expensive" promises, just change the "if_elapsed" value for those specific promises...
Here's what I have for my machines: body executor control { ns|fit_pc:: # Use restricted schedule on slow processors schedule => { "Min00", "Min15", "Min30", "Min45" }; !(ns|fit_fc):: # Use default schedule on faster processors schedule => { "Min00", "Min05", "Min10", "Min15", "Min20", "Min25", "Min30", "Min35", "Min40", "Min45", "Min50", "Min55" }; } I never notice Cfengine is running, and I track my load averages with Cricket... -Dan On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:14 AM, C R Ritson wrote: > It seems to me that I cannot arrange to validate promises regularly using > classes defined elsewhere. Have I misunderstood something? In body executor > control... > > schedule => { "Weekday.Morning.Q1", ... } > > fails to validate my promises when the class Weekday is defined in "bundle > agent executor" or when I attempt to define it globally in "bundle common > class". To get more frequent promise validation during the working day, I > seem to have to resort to... > > schedule => { "(Monday|Friday).(Min00_05|Min40_45).(Hr08|Hr18)", ... } > > (the or-ed expressions have been shortened here). Is there a better way of > doing this, or am I expected to achieve all this with "if_elapsed"? > > Chris Ritson (Computing Officer and School Safety Officer) > > Room 707, Claremont Tower, EMAIL: c.r.rit...@ncl.ac.uk > School of Computing Science, PHONE: +44 191 222 8175 > Newcastle University, FAX : +44 191 222 8232 > Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. WEB : http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine