Scheduled Tasks Timing has a mind of its own

[dreamingdigital]

I can't keep my scheduled tasks 'on schedule'. I even have a cron job on the server that hits a page every 1 min to make sure there is traffic on the site but that doesn't seem to help much. Eventually what's happening is all my scheduled tasks that I have set to run every 15 min and each task runs 2 min from the next one -- they eventually all end up running almost at once.

What can I do to make these things stay on the schedule I set?! I have 8 tasks. I need them to run at least 2min apart. I would not post here if I had not tried everything I could think of and magical things were not happening to my timing. It's magic. :)

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

i know this is sort of dah, but are there any delay settings on the the scheduled tasks? also, this sounds like a call to support might yield more informed responses as scheduled task are pretty new and the details pretty slim.

[dreamingdigital]

Nope. The delays, they're for 'triggers' right? And triggers are set by modules only, so not sure the delays actually work in this case. Have you ever setup multiple tasks that you wanted to keep on a semi-rough schedule Bruce - PhosphorMedia ?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

I have setup multiple scheduled tasks, but not a lot and have never seen what you are saying. Sorry. Like I said, I think you need support to look at it as they might have some more visibility 'under the hood'

[kayakbabe]

I ran into this exact issue when I switched from cron jobs to the scheduler. My scheduled tasks were drifting off schedule just like yours. I was told by Miva support that it is just the nature of the scheduler and the way it is designed. If something HAS to be exactly done at specific intervals or at a specific time, then a cron job is a better choice. So one of my reoccurring tasks is still done via cron.