The best job schedulers, according to hackers
3 job schedulers recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedsystemd timers40 people recommend it
- Built to lastcronowners report a median of 32 years
All job schedulers
- systemd timersRecommended as a cleaner cron replacement with per-job logs, explicit time zones and easy testing. Main caveat: complex schedules are as hard to write as anywhere else.40recommend
- cronRecommended for simple, reliable scheduled jobs with one-line config that has worked for decades. Caveat: its time format is easy to get wrong.36recommend
- Slurm Workload ManagerPeople recommend it for running and scheduling jobs efficiently on HPC clusters, with a long production record. Critics say its APIs change often between versions.10recommend