On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > While working on some maintenance scripts for TimedMediaHandler I've been > trying to make it easier to do scripts that use multiple parallel processes > to run through a large input set faster. > > My proposal is a ForkableMaintenance class, with an underlying > QueueingForkController which is a refactoring of the > OrderedStreamingForkController used by (at least) some CirrusSearch > maintenance scripts.
For what it's worth, when I saw ForkableMaintenance I thought of forking an open-source project, not Unix fork(). Something like ParallelMaintenance or ParallelizableMaintenance would better suggest the desired meaning for me. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
