+1 to the concept, I haven't looked at code yet. I would use this, more or less, immediately in fact.
-Brian On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to commit this module to trunk. > It's a watchdog module that creates a worker threads > either in parent, child via an API, and it's not for > standalone use, but for other module usage like > mod_heartbeat, probably mod_jk and others that need > maintenance threads. > > The reason is because couple of modules would benefit > from this functionality, and this adds a common API. > > Usage is very simple > 1. ap_watchdog_get_instance > 2. set singleton mode (only one child will execute) > 3. register a callback(s) with desired interval > > Module can either use pre-created watchdog instance > or create it's own in special cases thus creating > additional thread(s) > > For example heartbeat would be by an order of magnitude > simpler (I took some concepts from it) > Also I'd love to register the callbacks for balancer > so transferred method can normalize the load. > > Comments? > > Regards > -- > ^(TM) >
