I think a unique instance id, (sha-1 or whatever) is a good idea also. There are weird edge cases otherwise. For instance if there is a beanstalkd on 2 subnets for whatever reason, what is the convention?
I suspect however that I am just excited about he idea that this makes clock-hash style resource management way trivial, and that I'm looking for other excuses to back me up. Either way, the globally unique id saves code on the client side as well, by not needing to maintain references to connections in jobs. This allows for easier fun like passing jobs off to internal sub processes and whatnot. Regards, Erich On May 13, 4:30 am, Keith Rarick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Fred Wulff <[email protected]> wrote: > > At the moment, there doesn't appear to be a way to easily and globally > > identify a beanstalk job. > > ... > > I like this idea. I have a couple of thoughts about the details. > > * I think it should appear as a field (or fields) in the stats response. > > * I'd prefer if it were transparent. For example, if it is based on > the host name and a time stamp, those should be plainly visible. In > other words, I don't want it to be just a SHA-1 hash or something. > > * Perhaps the actual constuction can be left to the clients, who > already have almost enough information. They already know (or can get) > the IP address and port number of the service, the pid of the daemon, > and the job id. All they need in addition is the time the server was > started. Perhaps a random number is also necessary. How likely is a > server OS to reuse a pid within one second? These things could be > added as two separate fields in the stats output. > > kr --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beanstalk-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
