Linux cron jobs Please help

[Penth]

I'll start by saying I'm not very good in linux and I obviously shouldn't have been testing cron under root, but that's done and now I need help.

I was logged in as root because I was doing some linking of files between users and I started working with cron jobs. I accidentally deleted the default configuration that comes with the godaddy hosted server.

Now on my website some of the pages are loading really slow (it has been about a week since this happened) and I'm not sure if file system maintenance is being done anymore. Is there any way to check this or does anyone have a list of things that should be run by the root in the cron file?

Ideally, does anyone have their own dedicated server with godaddy and could let me know what is in the cron configuration? Thanks for any help.

 

[screw3d]

Or you can contact Godaddy's support? After all that's part of their service (I hope)

 

[Nothinman]

It's impossible to really say without having a Godaddy account to look and see what you might have gotten rid of. But even if you did get rid of some of the nightly maintenance stuff it shouldn't be causing noticable difference in webserver performance, at least I can't think of a reason why it would.

 

[screw3d]

Here's a crapshoot - I noticed that on some webservers, their memory usage is always maxed out because of memory caching.. it might be that one of those cron jobs were supposed to maintain the cache that speeds up serving.

This is a big guess.. I have completely no idea how that works