scheduling multiple site walks

[john208]

I have several profiles, each walking a different site. Many sites are hosted on the same web server. I want to schedule each site to walk at midnight but I only want to walk one site at a time. If I schedule them all to walk at midnight, don't they all try to walk at the same time, and maybe overload my server? How can I get them to walk one at a time.

Thanks, John

[John]

You could either schedule them for different times, or maybe add a page delay so even if they are running at the same time they will not add as much of a load.

Another approach would be to create a shell script or batch file to fire off the crawls in sequence, with each one waiting for the previous one to finish.