neat....ive built a bunch of those job engines in other languages, is  
it something you could post as a recipe / example ?


On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Rick Morrison wrote:

> I'm going to try a call to engine.dispose() in the child after the  
> fork, which should invalidate all the connections in the pool and  
> force the pool to start making new ones and see how that works out.
>
> Update: seems to work.
>
> The combination of polymorphic mapping and the processing module  
> actually makes a pretty nifty job dispatch engine. Each type of job  
> gets put into the persistent queue table as a subclass of a Job  
> class, each with their own respective .run() methods. When the child  
> wakes up, it can reconstitute the job object using session.load(Job,  
> idjob), and via polymorphic loading, you get the right class of job.  
> Just call .run() on the new instance and it's off and running. I get  
> about 20 child processes/sec here on a 256MB VMware guest running  
> Ubuntu, including the fork(), child database reconnect time, the job  
> object fetch, and two sql update operations per child.
>
> >


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