CRON Scheduling
project id: 1b326884-0c17-43ed-9b52-f443662e8f50
Is it fine to enable App Sleeping for a CRON schedule service?
I have a service (the psql s3 backup) but it missed the scheduled time. I wonder if I have something not configured properly. Something just feels off. Not to mention, it keeps reseting when it was "sleeping since". Not sure if this is just a UI bug. But it was definitely wrong.
If there is a better way to setup / configure this, just lmk
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then you wouldn't want to enable app sleeping with any kind of cron job / service
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1b326884-0c17-43ed-9b52-f443662e8f50do you have it in single shot mode?
yea
When I manually run it, it does work properly.
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then you wouldn't want to enable app sleeping with any kind of cron job / service
Ok yea. That is what I was wondering. Wasn't sure; but I did suspect that.
It does feel strange to me though. ..... wait. Is this just a reporting thing .... it seemed to me that it was still consuming resources. But I guess if it wasn't and it just shows up in the graphs as if it is,,, hmmmmmm
So if it is in single shot and has a railway CRON schedule, I don't need to sleep it, becuase the whole service is exited, taking up 0 resources; right?
that's correct
also, even if you where using it's node-cron thing, you still wouldn't want to sleep it, because it's not like it can wake itself up
the only thing than can wake a service is inbound public or private traffic
Right, this is intuitive. But I would think that a CRON schedule would wake it up. But I guess not.
nope, there's no traffic with that, ideally that option would be removed from the UI if you have cron enabled
Yea, that could make sense. I wonder if there is ever a reason why you would still want to sleep.
nope, there would not be a good reason to sleep a cron job
hmmmmm something feels off here ....
not enough data point to correctly draw a graph
Yea, I figure that too. Just more interesting that the different time scales show different data.
Should I manually remove the sleeping deployment?
I blame the module they use for graphs
yes
oh ummm or not
haha, switch it back to a regular service for now
Turn off single shot?
no no just remove the cron expression to switch it back to a regular service
but side note, glad you're using my single shot mode!
I figure it is better to use platform native options. And more than that, I have some ideas for a service I need to make. So I want to test out the railway native options
oh sorry I mean switch it back to a regular service to fix the sleeping service and then switch it back to a cron service
I kinda figured that, that is what you meant
you're the second person I've seen enabled app sleeping on a cron service
It did fix it
awesome
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