<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - RFE: Allow for random startup delay (or even spread) in timer units" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82084#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - RFE: Allow for random startup delay (or even spread) in timer units" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82084">bug 82084</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:mh+freedesktop-bugzilla@zugschlus.de" title="Marc Haber <mh+freedesktop-bugzilla@zugschlus.de>"> Marc Haber</a> <pre>This would indeed be useful as it would eliminate the need for the usual sleep $RANDOM semantics that is used in load-generating cron jobs. If a lot of VMs start running their cron jobs in parallel, this generates a painful load spike on the VM host that could be mitigated by adding some randomness. Please consider implementing this. Greetings Marc</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>