Thank you for your quick answers. I'll have a look. David
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > David Rouchy: > > Hi all, > > > > We are studying using ZooKeeper to manage configuration across multiple > > processes & server. What would be also interesting, as ZooKeeper know the > > list of process running, would be to use it to distribute tasks. > > > > We have some long running tasks, so we used multiple servers to process > > multiple tasks in the same time. My idea would be to use multiple > ephemeral > > watcher connected to one znode. A process will send data to this node > when > > a new task has to be launched. But here is my issue, I would like only > one > > watcher to be triggered of this change (a random watcher in the list). > Is > > there way to do such thing in ZooKeeper? > > > > Regards, > > > > David Rouchy > > Hi David, > > there's gearman[1], a client-server system to distribute tasks. I've > mentioned > it already two times on this list, so sorry for the repetition. Gearman > servers and clients are availabe in different implementations that use the > same protocol and are interchangeable AFAIK. > If somebody would build a gearman server using Zookeeper, there would be a > whole ecosystem for ZK for free to conquer! > > [1] http://gearman.org > > Regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
