Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Can I use poorman's cron or do I need to set up a standalone, legit cron job to run. Does memetracker 'schedule' itself based on how often cron is run? Does it matter how I set up the cron job so long as it runs?
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kyle_mathews commentedMemetracker doesn't schedule itself by cron runs. The important thing to schedule is how many days the memetracker covers (set by going to memetracker/1/edit).
I'd suggest running cron fairly often. If you have a large number of feeds (100+ -- which most memetrackers will have). You'll probably need to run cron every 15 minutes so that all your feeds get checked often.
I'd suggest using a standalone cron job -- poorman's cron only runs if a page is visited. When you're developing your site especially, you can't expect that visitors will hit your site every 15 minutes 24/7. Standalone crons are just more consistent.
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