Automattic / Automattic/pushpress
Batch ping requests, instead of creating individual cron tasks for each site.
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Description
Currently a new cron entry is added for each subscriber to notify them of changes. This can cause a problem when you're using an external cron provider, such as https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade which we do on WordPress.org
As a result, the cron table ends up with many jobs that all run within their own processes all requested at the same second. This causes a bit of a backlog to happen if there's a lot of subscribers.
Potentially, It would make sense to instead have these processed as a batch cron task, processing the first 5 entries, then scheduling another job to process items 6...n items, which processes the first 5-10, etc. Perhaps processing as many of them as it can within `max_execution_time / 2` seconds, then queueing another process, etc.
This is a low-priority enhancement, that may benefit larger sites with many hundreds of subscribers. WordPress.org maxes out at about 100 subscribers per site currently I believe.
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