[Tilesathome] Long jobs

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:37:40AM +0100, Andrew McCarthy wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The TAH server appears to re-queue jobs if they've been out with a
> client for a while, I'm guessing on the assumption the client has died.
> 
> However, some jobs just take a long time, like one on my PC yesterday
> that took most of the afternoon. I could see in the TAH tile status that
> it was regularly being re-handed out to clients, each of which either
> quietly plodded along with it like my PC, or couldn't cope and handed it
> back.
> 
> To prevent all this wasted bandwidth and duplicated effort, I'm
> proposing that the client periodically "touch base" with the server to
> simply say "I'm still here!". I don't know what the server's time-out
> is, but if it was one hour, the client could touch base every 30
> minutes, say.
> 
> Does this sound reasonable? It doesn't sound especially difficult (check
> the elapsed time between calls to Inkscape?), and I'm willing to have a
> go at coding it, but only if I'm not wasting my time :)

I think this is such a good idea I *almost* coded it once. Then I
realized that knowing no significant Perl, and hating PHP, I couldn't
bring myself to code it :)

I'm glad to deploy the server bits if you get it set up: patches to the
list will be gladly accepted. (Though I don't touch the client: deelkar
is more in charge of that than me.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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