-malways versus -mdefault on for EE 1.13

Question

What is the correct cron setting for Magento 1.13 to ensure Cache does NOT invalidate itself.

* * * * * /usr/bin/php html/cron.php -mdefault

or

 * * * * * /usr/bin/php html/cron.php -malways

I am assuming the malways tag should be run for EE?

Answer 1

Neither directly, you should execute cron.sh which in turn will execute both.

Running cron.php directly without a sanity check will cause overlapping of crons, duplicate processing and excessive resource consumption.

FPC invalidation of content is driven by the configuration defined in Enterprise/PageCache's config.xml.