Here's a recent email exchange, in case anyone has similar questions.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Colleen Ross <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:12 AM Subject: Re: beankstalkd questions I couldn't find the answers to To: Keith Rarick <[email protected]> That's fine. Thanks for the answers! On Friday, June 14, 2013, Keith Rarick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Colleen Ross <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. What is the maximum number of jobs a beanstalk queue can hold? > > As many as will fit in memory. > >> 2. How is a job's id determined when a job is first put-ed? > > The server chooses a number. > > The protocol guarantees only that the id will be an integer > and that it'll be unique among all the jobs submitted to that > server process. > > If you're curious about what the actual implementation does, > it gives the first job id 1, and each successive job gets the > next unused integer. > > Do you mind if I forward these questions and answers to the > mailing list at groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk? > That way everyone can benefit from the exchange. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beanstalk-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
