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Originally posted by george_proost
Is it possible to (in a very future release)

• sort by newsfeeder (i.e.one login per newnews execution)
  

• Not sure I understand. Can you elaborate?
  

  spawn a separate task out per newsfeeder group (wishfull thinking)
  

  Possible, and with Activestate now supporting 'fork', it should work under NT aswell. The problem is the load. On large batch jobs, the many successive MySQL inserts already causes a high server load. Imagine the problem with 3 or copies running simultaneously.
  

  on exit of newnews (successful exit !!) start a cron job for a random start between a period range start the next x and x+y minutes (or something )
  
  x = I need an update at least evey x minutes average
  y = start no sooner than y minutes from last execution
  so
  next start time = now + y + random(fromset[x])
  

  Yep... good idea. I'd probably make use of this so I'll look at adding it sooner rather than later