Hi Graham

It's a shame that it's still not working. I guess my one last question is - is 
there any difference between running script/delayed_job, rake jobs:work and 
Delayed::Worker.work_off? (Granted, I'm used to the Rails 3 version, so maybe 
these are slightly different).

It shouldn't be too hard to create a new gem for a different queue system - one 
exists for Workling:

  https://github.com/dpickett/workling_delta_indexer

And I know others have been created (but maybe not released publicly).

Good luck!

-- 
Pat

On 01/02/2011, at 9:24 AM, Graham Pengelly wrote:

> Hi Pat
> 
> I've spent another age on this and still haven't got a solution. The
> issue is definitely down to delayed_job or one of its dependencies. I
> can happily run everything from your code outside of delayed_job but
> once I start to queue it.
> 
> There are lots of issues on the delayed_job issues page on github
> (https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job/issues) which don't
> seem to be getting addressed in the 2.0.* branch. I've had a look but
> can't see anything I can contribute myself at this stage and the gem
> has moved on now to the rails 3 version.
> 
> In terms of progress, I've actually got it to run now but it hangs on
> the second indexing job for some reason and the DJ daemon has to be
> restarted, at which point it will run another indexing job and then
> hang again. I got to this stage with DJ 2.0.5 and daemons 1.0.10 (1.1
> has known issues with DJ it appears and won't let the daemon start).
> I've also tried swapping out the use of daemons with daemon-spawn and
> got the same result. First index is fine, subsequent one hangs.
> 
> I'm going to have to give up on this approach and try something else,
> probably another queue and write my own custom delta worker. If
> there's anything I can contribute back to TS I will do...
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Graham
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2:30 pm, Graham Pengelly <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Pat
>> 
>> Yes... I tried system(... but just got the same problem. It did at one
>> stage go through but output a "memory can't be allocated" message but
>> when I looked into it I'd just run the rake task so many times that
>> I'd filled up the RAM on the box. Once I cleared it we were back to
>> square one with it hanging. I thought I was on to something with that
>> as well but apparently not.
>> 
>> I'm logged in as the user that rails runs under so if I execute the
>> index command directly it should be the same user as when I do it
>> through rake ts:dd etc. I did think that it may be a permissions issue
>> so I changed the permissions on the indexer to 777 but it didn't make
>> any difference. The other delayed jobs that ts queues go through fine
>> when I re-run the rake task. It is just the indexer one that has the
>> problem so it seems that delayed_job is working fine except with the
>> sphinx indexer.
>> 
>> I'm going to have another crack at it this evening so I'll post back
>> if I make any progress...
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Graham
>> 
>> On Jan 30, 1:21 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi Graham
>> 
>>> What happens if you switch `#{config.bin_path}...` to 
>>> system("#{config.bin_path}...")?
>> 
>>> No idea why it would be any different, mind you. Are you running the 
>>> commands manually with the same user that runs delayed job?
>> 
>>> --
>>> Pat
>> 
>>> On 30/01/2011, at 9:04 AM, Graham Pengelly wrote:
>> 
>>>> Hi Pay
>> 
>>>> I still haven't fixed it but it seems that it is hanging in the
>>>> perform method on DeltaJob when the indexer gets called. The command
>>>> is fine -
>> 
>>>> /usr/bin/indexer --config /home/rails/secure.mapslegal.co.uk/releases/
>>>> 20110128140157/config/production.sphinx.conf --rotate policy_delta
>>>> policy_delta
>> 
>>>> ...and if I execute 'manually' it works as expected. Curiously, if I
>>>> alter that line and change it to exec "#{config.bin_path}... The
>>>> indexer runs successfully without hanging but obviously it never
>>>> returns and the rake task exits without updating the delayed_jobs
>>>> table.
>> 
>>>> I'll have another go at it tomorrow but thought I'd report back and
>>>> see if my 'findings' so far shed any light on the problem.
>> 
>>>> Thanks
>> 
>>>> Graham
>> 
>>>> On Jan 27, 8:22 am, Graham Pengelly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Pat
>> 
>>>>> Yes... thinking_sphinx, ts-delayed-delta and delayed-job are all
>>>>> installed as gems. I'm away today so can't work on it but I'll have
>>>>> another crack at it tomorrow and post back on here with any progress.
>> 
>>>>> Thanks again for your advice.
>> 
>>>>> Graham
>> 
>>>>> On Jan 27, 1:21 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Hi Graham
>> 
>>>>>> Just to confirm - are you using TS as a gem? From memory, I think if 
>>>>>> ts-delayed-delta is being used, TS needs to be installed as a gem 
>>>>>> instead of a plugin.
>> 
>>>>>> Beyond that, I'm at a loss as to why this could be happening. I guess, 
>>>>>> I'd start debugging by editing the delayed job and ts-delayed-delta gems 
>>>>>> to figure out where it's hanging. Can understand if you don't want to do 
>>>>>> this, mind you... if you're willing to give me access to the project so 
>>>>>> I can try reproducing the issue, contact me off-list.
>> 
>>>>>> Cheers
>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Pat
>> 
>>>>>> On 26/01/2011, at 10:47 PM, Graham Pengelly wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Pat
>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for responding... I'm still stuck with it and was about to
>>>>>>> resort to trying to fix it with a hammer :)
>> 
>>>>>>> I thought there might be some version issues myself as the latest
>>>>>>> delayed_job looked to be only compatible with rails 3 and the ts-
>>>>>>> delayed-job gem seemed to pull in the latest version of delayed_job
>>>>>>> when dj wasn't installed. So... I installed the earlier, 2.3.*
>>>>>>> compatible version of dj.
>> 
>>>>>>> My app is currently on:
>> 
>>>>>>> Rails 2.3.8
>>>>>>> thinking-sphinx 1.4.1
>>>>>>> ts-delayed-delta 1.1.1
>>>>>>> delayed_job 2.0.4
>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks
>> 
>>>>>>> Graham
>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 26, 11:20 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Graham
>> 
>>>>>>>> This is definitely something odd. What versions of Rails and Delayed 
>>>>>>>> Job are you using?
>> 
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Pat
>> 
>>>>>>>> On 24/01/2011, at 10:02 PM, Graham Pengelly wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi
>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm attempting to set up delta indexing using delayed_job via the the
>>>>>>>>> ts-delayed-delta (1.1.1) gem. The app is happily queuing jobs to the
>>>>>>>>> delayed_job table in the db but when I run the ts:dd rake task (or any
>>>>>>>>> other method of getting the delayed_job worker running) it hangs after
>>>>>>>>> locking the first delta job with the log -
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Starting job worker
>>>>>>>>> acquired lock on ThinkingSphinx::Deltas::DeltaJob for policy_delta,
>>>>>>>>> policy_delta
>> 
>>>>>>>>> I can create a ThinkingSphinx::Deltas::DeltaJob and then 'perform' it
>>>>>>>>> successfully from the console so that works on the machine. The db
>>>>>>>>> table is also getting written to as the 'locked_at' and 'locked_by'
>>>>>>>>> field are completed. It isn't specifically the policy model causing
>>>>>>>>> the problem as I use delta indexing on a couple of other models and
>>>>>>>>> they hang after the lock too.
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Any ideas would be gratefully received.
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Graham
>> 
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