Can gearman be setup like cron?

[Terry Riegel]

I am looking for something that works like cron but can be invoked immediatly. I have tried backgrounding tasks but that gets messy because the backgrounded task is still held captive by the invoking foreground task.

Does gearman work like cron but with immediate invocation of a job?

Thanks,

Terry Riegel

[James D Bearden]

I am definitely not an expert on gearman, but as I understand it the main difference between foreground and background tasks is that foreground tasks maintain a connection to the task and returns a value. There is also a way to set tasks as high priority so that it gets processed before other tasks. Not really sure what you are asking but what I do with some of my tasks is I write in such a way so that they can either be run directly or run by a task. So there is sort of a stub that gearman deals with but it hands of to a regular old perl subroutine to do the heavy lifting that can be invoked directly. Good luck.

James

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[Clint Byrum]

It's really hard to answer this without a concrete description.

Can you explain what you're trying to accomplish, rather than how you're trying to accomplish it?

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