Don't forget about the potentials of a priority based queue! (That being said I actually have no idea what goes into our job queues; so can't say if there's good candidates for priority based queuing.)
~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2013 12:10 AM, "John" <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I know Aaron has spent a lot of time on the job queue. But I have > > several observations and would like some feedback. The current workers > > apparently select jobs from the queue at random. A FIFO method would > > make far more sense. We have some jobs that can sit there in the queue > > for extended periods of time, while others added after that point may > > get completed in mere few minutes. > > Well random is not the only method. There is also timestamp based and FIFO. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
