I’d really like to be be able to see the size of a worker queue (as David Adams and others have said in the past). In my case I want a one-shot (+1 if the worker is running), which doesn’t look doable if the calling process is also preemptive - unless I lob everything into the queue with a timestamp.
Why do I want this? I want to start a sync process which takes 10 seconds or so to run (an ideal candidate to run preemptively), which may be called from a trigger or another preemptive process. There may be many thousands of simultaneous calls, so I want one call if the worker is not running (semaphore is good enough) and one call to add just one to the queue if it is running (to mop up data that has changed since the worker executed). Having a potentially huge queue seems a waste, but I’m struggling for other ideas? Sadly I missed the Summits. Tony Pollard Another Dimension ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
