Forgive me if this is slightly off the wall, but I saw a telly program
a while ago which mentioned that prime numbers are great for getting
otherwise in-sync things to shuffle about so they fit together nicely
(think seeds on the head of a sunflower).
So my holistic, organic and probably even vegan advice for nice smooth
scheduling in Nagios is always use a prime number for the
check_interval. And choose various different prime numbers for
different service checks. You know it makes sense ...
I actually did this on my previous Nagios (v2) system. I like to
think it worked too. My newer (v3) system has more cpus so I'm not so
fussed, but tbh it's getting quite busy now so I might just out some
primes in there again and see if it helps.
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