There is some overhead, but efficiency is a disputable term - there is certainly more overhead than hardcron, but IMO not in a way that would affect overall performance unless you're running it on a site that has hundreds of thousands of hits per day...
On Apr 1, 5:40 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > Section 4.17 (cron) mentions hard vs soft cron defaults, but doesn't say how > to override them. > > Section 4.1 (cli) doesn't list --softcron > > The startup message for soft cron says: 'Using softcron (but this is not very > efficient)' > > In what sense "not efficient"? I understand that the timing is less > consistent, but is there really more overhead? softcron seems like a pretty > reasonable choice if all you're doing it deleting expired sessions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.