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  patpropatpro@social.patpro.net

  Nov 1, 2026, 7:53 AM

  @patrislav @jane @hzulla

  Exactly. Jitter option (-j for users, -J for root) was introduced in cron in FreeBSD 5.3 (late 1993) in order to address system load spikes. The grid effect was probably not evaluated at the time, because CPU/RAM/Network were scarce back then, compared to electricity.

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