Pulp

- create a repo

$ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id yar1 --feed https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/zoo/ --relative-url yar1

- schedule sync to run every 30 seconds and specify the number of recurrences

$ pulp-admin rpm repo sync schedules create -s R2/PT30S --repo-id yar1

- wait for more that 1.5 minutes and look at the schedule report. It says that schedule is not enabled anymore but total_run_count is still increasing and also you can check that the list of completed sync tasks for your repo is growing too

$ pulp-admin -vv rpm repo sync schedules  list --repo-id yar1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                               Schedules
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

2016-02-24 13:54:52,262 - DEBUG - sending GET request to /pulp/api/v2/repositories/yar1/importers/yum_importer/schedules/sync/
2016-02-24 13:54:52,293 - INFO - GET request to /pulp/api/v2/repositories/yar1/importers/yum_importer/schedules/sync/ with parameters None
2016-02-24 13:54:52,293 - INFO - Response status : 200 

2016-02-24 13:54:52,293 - INFO - Response body :
 [
  {
    "next_run": "2016-02-24T12:55:16Z", 
    "task": "pulp.server.controllers.repository.queue_sync_with_auto_publish", 
    "last_updated": 1456318491.582464, 
    "first_run": "2016-02-24T12:52:46Z", 
    "schedule": "R2/PT30S", 
    "args": [
      "yar1"
    ], 
    "enabled": false, 
    "last_run_at": "2016-02-24T12:54:46Z", 
    "_id": "56cda79ee1382316a16a7492", 
    "total_run_count": 5, 
    "failure_threshold": null, 
    "kwargs": {
      "overrides": {}, 
      "scheduled_call_id": "56cda79ee1382316a16a7492"
    }, 
    "resource": "pulp:importer:yar1:yum_importer", 
    "remaining_runs": 0, 
    "consecutive_failures": 0, 
    "_href": "/pulp/api/v2/repositories/yar1/importers/yum_importer/schedules/sync/56cda79ee1382316a16a7492/"
  }
]

Schedule: R2/PT30S
Id:       56cda79ee1382316a16a7492
Enabled:  False
Next Run: 2016-02-24T12:55:16Z

- explicitly disabling this schedule does not help either

pulp-admin rpm repo sync schedules update --schedule-id 56cda79ee1382316a16a7492 --enabled false --repo-id yar1

This issue is presented at least in 2.7 and 2.8.