Setting up Gearman

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An asynchronous job scheduling engine, of the type "do this somewhere else". Benefits: somewhere else, fast. Flaws: currently if it dies jobs are lost (apparently the team that manages it is working on that). Name is an anagram of "manager"; from LiveJournal days. IRC log with history/discussion Gearman on Dreamwidth gearman.org

Setup

Install the server:

sudo apt-get install gearman-server

And also edit /etc/default/gearman-server so that ENABLED is true.

Run the daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/gearman-server start

Might want to add it to startup.

Then, you need to add this to your configs in the LJ section somewhere:

@GEARMAN_SERVERS = ('localhost:7003');

When looking for examples of gearman workers in existing code, try:

egrep -i gearman bin/worker/*