if you care to post an app that reproduces the behaviour, I'd be glad to 
iron out the bug, if there's one.

On Thursday, November 20, 2014 12:07:50 PM UTC+1, Francisco Ribeiro wrote:
>
> thank you,
>
> a different and yet related problem that I found when I was testing the 
> timeout behaviour using a simple task that just does a time.sleep(3000) is 
> that this keeps the CPU load of its process close to 100% during the whole 
> time. This, however it's not a CPU intensive function and you won't find 
> this behaviour if you test it outside of the scheduler. There seems to be 
> room for optimisations since this means that a small number of lightweight 
> tasks that for some reason need more time to complete, will quickly consume 
> CPU.
>
> Kind regards,
> Francisco 
>
> On Thursday, 20 November 2014 09:57:05 UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> the "new task report" line is logged when the status is either COMPLETED 
>> or FAILED. 
>> These are not the statuses of the task itself, it's the status of the 
>> task being returned by the "executor" process, that knows only if the task 
>> ended correctly or raised some exceptions. 
>> The "finer grained" statuses are "computed" back in the "worker" process 
>> (the report_task() routine, to be exact), that knows, e.g., if a task needs 
>> to be queued again, etc etc etc
>>
>> On Thursday, November 20, 2014 4:30:36 AM UTC+1, Francisco Ribeiro wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> After some debugging, I noticed that when tasks timeout while using the 
>>> scheduler, I get an output as follows:
>>> DEBUG:web2py.app.myapp:    new task report: FAILED
>>> DEBUG:web2py.app.myapp:   traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/../web2py/gluon/scheduler.py", line 303, in executor
>>>     result = dumps(_function(*args, **vars))
>>>   File "applications/myapp/models/db.py", line 337, in schedule_call
>>>     time.sleep(3600)
>>>   File "/.../web2py/gluon/scheduler.py", line 704, in <lambda>
>>>     signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, lambda signum, stack_frame: sys.exit(1
>>> ))
>>> SystemExit: 1
>>>
>>> Whilst the timeout behaviour happens just as I expect it to be and 
>>> things get stored correctly on the database (scheduler_run.status = 
>>> 'TIMEOUT'), this debugging output is somewhat misleading since 'FAILED' 
>>> seems to be an alternative state different than 'TIMEOUT' according to 
>>> documentation ( 
>>> http://www.web2py.com/books/default/image/29/ce8edcc3.png ).
>>>
>>> Can someone explain to me why this happens? Is it expectable? 
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Francisco
>>>
>>

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