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How to Monitor Disk IO on Linux Server with Iotop and Cron

Silver Moon — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:23:02 +0000

This tutorial shows how to monitor disk io on a linux server automatically with iotop and cron

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PHP manage multiple cronjobs with a single crontab entry

Silver Moon — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:00:47 +0000

In many php applications there are multiple tasks that need to be run via cron at different times. In a typical application you may be doing the following tasks via cronjobs : 1. Backup database. 2. Send out email to subscribers. 3. Clear temporary files. 4. Fetch xml feeds from some source and store them... Read More »

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PHP check if a timestamp matches a given cron schedule

Silver Moon — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:48:43 +0000

desktop:~$ php -a Interactive shell php > echo time(); 1319362432 php > Above is an example of a given timestamp. And a cron schedule can look like this 0 5 * * * - which means run everyday at 5 hours and 0 minutes. Now in a php application you may need to test if... Read More »

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