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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:58:07
Message-Id: 53DEA222.9000200@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On 03/08/2014 22:23, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:04:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote:
4 >>>> Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is
5 >>>>
6 >>>>> one which could be implemented without lots of overhead:
7 >>>>> Mainly, I was up to a "quick" solution which is working good enough
8 >>>>> for me: If the server has no bugs, why should it die?
9 >>>>> Moreover, if the server dies for some strange reasons, it is probably
10 >>>>> safer to re-queue the jobs again, anyway.
11 >>>
12 >>> With the kind of schedules I am working with (and I believe Alan will also
13 >>> end up with), restarting the whole process from the start can lead to
14 >>> issues. Finding out how far the process got before the service crashed
15 >>> can become rather complex.
16 >>
17 >> Yes, very much so. My first concern is the database cleanups - without
18 >> scheduler guarantees I'd need transactions in MySQL.
19 >
20 > Or you migrate to PostgreSQL, but that is OT :)
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23 Maybe, but also valid :-)
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25 I took one look at the schemas here and wondered "Why MySQL? This is
26 Postgres territory". It's a case of LAMP tunnel vision.
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33 Alan McKinnon
34 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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