simply said, you can't reliably. 
The whole reason you offload tasks to a worker vs a really simpler ajax 
call is because it's a totally external process that is NOT managed by the 
webserver. webservers do kill long-running processes (usually after 60 
seconds) spawned by themselves to avoid zombie stale resources.

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 10:33:22 PM UTC+1, Alfonso Serra wrote:
>
> Ok this should do it.
>>
>
> def sched_running():
>     
>     workers = sched.get_workers()
>     
>     for key, worker in workers.items():
>         last = (request.now - worker.last_heartbeat).seconds
>         if last < 4:
>             return True
>     return False
>
> One last thing, any idea on how to start the scheduler from within a 
> controller?
>
> Im trying os.system("web2py -K myapp") but the scheduler runs on top of 
> the server process and stops working.
>
> Thanks
>  
>

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