id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
8923	cron timeout is too short	hailin	anonymous	"Many users have reported  that 2.7 cron sometimes fails to publish future post. 
And it is further reported that it depends on the number of jobs on the cron queue - when the queue is too long, it will miss some. 

I believe this is because we set the timeout value too short: 

wp_remote_post($cron_url, array('timeout' => 0.01, 'blocking' => false));

When making a request to wp-cron.php, it won't return until all cron jobs are executed.  And 0.01 is just too short time span. It doesn't hurt to give it sufficent time, such as 10 minutes. It will return as long as the mature crons are fired up and executed (in most cases, it's going to be at most a few seconds ). 
"	defect (bug)	reopened	normal	Future Release	Cron		normal		needs-patch reporter-feedback	techecatocom