[Mailman-Developers] Mailman queue design problem?
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@digicool.com
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:02:29 -0400
>>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> writes:
>> 4) The qrunners are long running processes, monitored by a cron
>> spawned watchdog. Pros: on a warmed up system, delivery occurs
>> almost immediately, with start up delays amortized over the
>> life of the qrunner (Python 2.0's cyclic garbage collector
>> helps keep memory usage under control). Cons: debugging is,
>> er, more challenging because you have to kill the master
>> qrunner whenever you (really, I ;) make a change to the code.
JRA> With just a little caution on locking, that's going to make
JRA> my rate limit throttling stuff much easier to implement,
JRA> isn't it?
I believe so, but I can think of one refinement that would help you.
The Runner base class calls _doperiodic() after each file is
processed. In here you could do the rate limit calculation, but
currently there's no protocol for _doperiodic() to tell the for loop
in __oneloop() to break out early. I think I can easily add one.
-Barry