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Ultimate Cron

Ultimate Cron is an extention of Drupal's cron system, allowing you to individually control each cron job.

It is recommended to disable Ultimate Cron's poorman's cron function, and instead setup the crontab on the server to run each minute, e.g.:

Ultimate Cron Queue Scaler: Process queues in multiple threads. When enabling this module, each queue can be configured to be processed in X

One of the reasons for stalled jobs is memory exhaust. To mitigate this, memory can be pre-allocated using the following code in settings

Q: My web site is slow or unresponsive

Ultimate Cron is installed just like any other module. After installing, Ultimate Cron will take over cron operations and begin to run cron

When running Drupal on multiple servers, it can be useful to offload the cron processing to all or some servers.