08 March 2009, 18:35

Hi. When the cron job runs every minute, on my system I get contact us emails sent to admin right away, but the forum post or reply notification emails seem to take longer. Is there a master schedule for when the cron jobs run and do different tasks?  I have been searching but haven't found anything like that yet.

Thanks, Jamie

09 March 2009, 0:42

Hi. There are several cron tables in the database - one for the core ('cron') and one for each type of plugin. These contain the schedule for cron jobs. If you look in them, you'll see the times the jobs can be run are scheduled just like for real cron.

Some notifications are sent instantly, while others are queued, by the way. You can see this information in the activity_type table - the ones with delay=1 are queued in the activity_queue table to be sent out by the appropriate cronjob later.