Job running multiple times about gs-scheduling-tasks

[gregturn]

Have you tried @Scheduled(cron = "0 0 */4 * * *") as your expression for every 4 hours?

In the future, use markdown code fences to make things easier to read.

[rmordillo-witbooking]

Hi,
I edited my post is fenced now , also edited the comment in java. It is supposed to be running every 4 hours.
What I meant is that , for instance:

Job1 is launched
Job1 is COMPLETED
Just after this Job1 is launched again , and again

the same goes for the other 2 jobs.

Sorry I didn't explain it like this before.

[gregturn]

My suggestion is to alter your cron expression and use 0's in place of *'s as shown in the my comment.

[rmordillo-witbooking]

oh! sorry
Let me try it this way then althought I thought * were used as a "any".
I will keep you posted about it.
thanks

[gregturn]

Well, * (in any programming context) means any. You are saying "any second, any minute", which kind of undermines trying to ONLY hit every x hours. But "0 0 */4" is like "on the 0th second and the 0th minute, and any hour divisible by 4, then go". If you have a whole slew of cron jobs that happen every 4 hours, it gives you the power to stagger them to different

4:00:00, 4:00:01, 4:00:02, 4:00:03, ... 4:01:00, 4:01:01, etc. would qualify if you used *'s like that.

[rmordillo-witbooking]

Hi!
it seems that I understood or misread some tutorial about this topic.
You were right, and now it works as I expected.

Thanks for your help

[HemasekharT]

I have some issues with this Jobs triggering from multiple instances of the Pivotal Cloud. How to prevent this. Any suggestions??