[documentation] Question on cron

[O Govinda]

I'm doing a revised help page for the Search module, and I have a question
about cron. 

Our documentation says you should set up a "cron job" that visits
http://example.com/cron.php "frequently." Newbies may well wonder, "What's
*frequently*? Once a week? Once a day? Once an hour?" We offer no clue. 

Newbie admins facing the challenge of using Drupal to set up their first
website may not want to delve deep into cron. Chances are they'd like a
simple suggestion they can use as a default: "You can do it this way."

So I'd like to tell them:

"For a modest personal site, you might set up such a cron job to run every
[SPECIFY INTERVAL HERE]. For a larger site you'd likely want to run that job
more often."

Question: Is this suitable advice? If so, what should that interval be?

Thanks. 

Cordially, 
O Govinda
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