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How to run background jobs? (self.rust)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nothingness to c/[email protected]

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Is there any library for the queueing mechanism?

What's used by the most - Cron? But a task or rather script executed by Cron won't access to the context of an application. Meaning, a task will have be an independent unit. Whereas I want is a library to use inside a project such that it'll have access to everything.

Anything similar to Sidekiq exist in Rust?

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[–] nothingness 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For my project I just run them.

How would you "just run" a task every 30 minutes? Every 5 hours? Once a day?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

std::thread::spawn(|| {
    loop {
        std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(30*60));
        do_job();
    }
});

Works pretty well. Maybe add a bit of code to crash the whole process on panic or some other logging. Wastes a few KiB of memory per loop but probably not a major issue. Doing this with async will waste only the tiniest amount of memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kevincox How do you stop the job? Do you use channels like in Go?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It depends. Sometimes you can just put an exit call at the end of main to kill the thread. If you want to attempt graceful shutdown then usually I just use a boolean shutdown flag. Then the loop becomes while !shutdown.get() {

[–] nothingness 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

what if one of the calls crashes? how would you re-run it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best option is probably to add a wrapper around the thread that re-spawns it. But you can also just catch panics in the loop.

[–] nothingness 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How would you re-run it multiple times then? An internal should be progressively greater. How would you terminate it if it continues to produce an exception?