On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is >> > one which could be implemented without lots of overhead: >> > Mainly, I was up to a "quick" solution which is working good enough >> > for me: If the server has no bugs, why should it die? >> > Moreover, if the server dies for some strange reasons, it is probably >> > safer to re-queue the jobs again, anyway.
> With the kind of schedules I am working with (and I believe Alan will also > end > up with), restarting the whole process from the start can lead to issues. > Finding out how far the process got before the service crashed can become > rather complex. Yes, very much so. My first concern is the database cleanups - without scheduler guarantees I'd need transactions in MySQL. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com