[mythtv-users] Ticket #9764: SBE's mythjobqueue preventing MBE idleness

[Brian J. Murrell]

On 11-05-26 12:18 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> [Switching to mythtv-users list, since you're subscribed there]

Sure.

> Yeah, I didn't test a case where the backend wasn't running/didn't 
> design it for that check.  If you'd like to add a check at the beginning 
> (a sort of "ping", where if it errors as above)

Wouldn't it just be better to handle the exception from the connection
attempt?

> and exit with a defined 
> large-value status (like 127--which should be large enough to not 
> overlap with jobcount)

And wouldn't it be more appropriate to just exit with 0, since if the
backend is sleeping the job queue is either empty or any jobs in it
cannot be fetched anyway?  I don't recall if >0 jobs in the queue
prevents idle or not, but it should if it does not.

> and modify the script on the wiki, it would be 
> much appreciated.

Yeah.

> (Also, feel free to write up better usage instructions on the 
> page--possibly including any start script or cron script you've created.)

Well, since this is all just part of a driver for the real job queue
processor I will post my final script for both monitoring and processing
the job queue, when I have it done.

Cheers,
b.

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