Why does my cron configured GitHub Action not run every 2 minutes?

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Why isn't cron running every 2 minutes? The effective running interval is 9 minutes.

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From the documentation:

The shortest interval you can run scheduled workflows is once every 5 minutes.

This being said, even setting to 5 minutes doesn't seem to run at exact 5 minute intervals.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
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