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NAME

       gearmand - Gearmand Documentation, http://gearman.info/

SYNOPSIS

       General options

       -b [ --backlog ] arg (=32)
              Number of backlog connections for listen.

       --check-args
              Check command line and configuration file arguments and then exit.

       -d [ --daemon ]
              Daemon, detach and run in the background.

       -f [ --file-descriptors ] arg
              Number  of  file  descriptors  to  allow for the process (total connections will be
              slightly less). Default is max allowed for user.

       -h [ --help ]
              Print this help menu.

       -j [ --job-retries ] arg (=0)
              Number of attempts to run the job before the job server removes it. This is helpful
              to ensure a bad job does not crash all available workers. Default is no limit.

       -l [ --log-file ] arg
              Log  file  to  write errors and information to.  Turning this option on also forces
              the first verbose level to be enabled.

       -L [ --listen ] arg
              Address the server should listen on. Default is INADDR_ANY.

       -p [ --port ] arg (=4730)
              Port the server should listen on.

       -P [ --pid-file ] arg
              File to write process ID out to.

       -r [ --protocol ] arg
              Load protocol module.

       -R [ --round-robin ]
              Assign work in round-robin order per worker connection. The default  is  to  assign
              work in the order of functions added by the worker.

       -q [ --queue-type ] arg
              Persistent queue type to use.

       -t [ --threads ] arg (=4)
              Number of I/O threads to use. Default=4.

       -u [ --user ] arg
              Switch to given user after startup.

       -v [ --verbose ] arg (=v)
              Set  verbosity  level.  Defaults  to  ERROR. Accepts FATAL, ALERT, CRITICAL, ERROR,
              WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, and DEBUG.

       -V [ --version ]
              Display the version of gearmand and exit.

       -w [ --worker-wakeup ] arg (=0)
              Number of workers to wakeup for each job received. The default  is  to  wakeup  all
              available workers.

       --keepalive
              Enable keepalive on sockets.

       --keepalive-idle arg (=-1)
              If  keepalive  is  enabled, set the value for TCP_KEEPIDLE for systems that support
              it. A value of -1 means that either the system does not  support  it  or  an  error
              occurred when trying to retrieve the default value.

       --keepalive-interval arg (=-1)
              If  keepalive  is enabled, set the value for TCP_KEEPINTVL for systems that support
              it. A value of -1 means that either the system does not  support  it  or  an  error
              occurred when trying to retrieve the default value.

       --keepalive-count arg (=-1)
              If keepalive is enabled, set the value for TCP_KEEPCNT for systems that support it.
              A value of -1 means that either the system does not support it or an error occurred
              when trying to retrieve the default value.

       HTTP:

       --http-port arg (=8080)
              Port to listen on.

       sqlite

       --libsqlite3-db arg
              Database file to use.

       --libsqlite3-table arg (=gearman_queue)
              Table to use.

       Memcached(libmemcached)

       --libmemcached-servers arg
              List of Memcached servers to use.

       Drizzle/MySQL(libdrizzle)

       --libdrizzle-host arg
              Host of server.

       --libdrizzle-port arg
              Port of server. (by default Drizzle)

       --libdrizzle-uds arg
              Unix domain socket for server.

       --libdrizzle-user arg
              User name for authentication.

       --libdrizzle-password arg
              Password for authentication.

       --libdrizzle-db arg
              Schema/Database to use.

       --libdrizzle-table arg
              Table to use.

       --libdrizzle-mysql arg
              Use MySQL protocol.

       Postgres

       --libpq-conninfo arg
              PostgreSQL connection information string.

       --libpq-table arg (=queue)
              Table to use.

       tokyocabinet

       --libtokyocabinet-file arg
              File name of the database. [see: man tcadb, tcadbopen() for name guidelines]

       --libtokyocabinet-optimize
              Optimize database on open. [default=true]

DESCRIPTION

       Gearman  provides  a  generic  application framework to farm out work to other machines or
       processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel,  to
       load  balance  processing,  and  to  call functions between languages. It can be used in a
       variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to  the  transport  of  database
       replication  events.  In  other  words,  it  is  the  nervous  system  for how distributed
       processing communicates. A few strong points about Gearman:

       • Open Source - It's free! (in both meanings of the  word)  Gearman  has  an  active  open
         source  community  that  is  easy  to  get  involved  with  if  you need help or want to
         contribute.

       • Multi-language - There are interfaces for a  number  of  languages,  and  this  list  is
         growing.  You  also  have  the  option  to write heterogeneous applications with clients
         submitting work in one language and workers performing that work in another.

       • Flexible - You are not tied to any specific design pattern. You can quickly put together
         distributed  applications  using  any  model  you  choose,  one  of  those options being
         Map/Reduce.

       • Fast - Gearman has a simple protocol and interface with a new optimized server in  C  to
         minimize your application overhead.

       • Embeddable  - Since Gearman is fast and lightweight, it is great for applications of all
         sizes. It is also easy to introduce into existing applications with minimal overhead.

       • No single point of failure - Gearman can not only help scale systems, but can do it in a
         fault tolerant way.

   Thread Model
       The  -t  option to gearmand allows you to specify multiple I/O threads, this is enabled by
       default. There are currently three types of threads in the job server:

       Listening and management thread - only one I/O thread - can have many Processing thread  -
       only one

       When  no  -t  option  is given or -t 0 is given, all of three thread types happen within a
       single thread. When -t 1 is given, there is a thread for listening/management and a thread
       for  I/O  and  processing.  When  -t 2 is given, there is a thread for each type of thread
       above. For all -t option values above 2, more I/O threads are created.

       The listening and management thread is mainly responsible for  accepting  new  connections
       and  assigning those connections to an I/O thread (if there are many). It also coordinates
       startup and shutdown within the server. This thread will have an instance of libevent  for
       managing  socket  events  and signals on an internal pipe. This pipe is used to wakeup the
       thread or to coordinate shutdown.

       The I/O thread is responsible for doing the read and write system calls on the sockets and
       initial  packet  parsing.  Once  the packet has been parsed it it put into an asynchronous
       queue for the processing thread (each thread has it's own queue so there  is  very  little
       contention).  Each I/O thread has it's own instance of libevent for managing socket events
       and signals on an internal pipe like the listening thread.

       The processing thread should have no system calls within it  (except  for  the  occasional
       brk()  for  more  memory), and manages the various lists and hash tables used for tracking
       unique keys, job handles, functions, and job queues. All packets that need to be sent back
       to  connections are put into an asynchronous queue for the I/O thread. The I/O thread will
       pick these up and send them back over the connected socket. All packets flow  through  the
       processing thread since it contains the information needed to process the packets. This is
       due to the complex nature of the various lists and hash tables. If multiple  threads  were
       modifying  them the locking overhead would most likely cause worse performance than having
       it in a single thread (and would also complicate the code). In the future more work may be
       pushed  to  the I/O threads, and the processing thread can retain minimal functionality to
       manage those tables and lists. So far this has not been a  significant  bottleneck,  a  16
       core Intel machine is able to process upwards of 50k jobs per second.

       For thread safety to work when UUID are generated, you must be running the uuidd daemon.

   Persistent Queues
       Inside the Gearman job server, all job queues are stored in memory. This means if a server
       restarts or crashes with pending jobs, they will be lost and are never run  by  a  worker.
       Persistent  queues were added to allow background jobs to be stored in an external durable
       queue so they may live between server restarts and crashes. The persistent queue  is  only
       enabled  for  background  jobs  because  foreground jobs have an attached client. If a job
       server goes away, the client can detect this and restart the foreground job somewhere else
       (or  report  an error back to the original caller). Background jobs on the other hand have
       no attached client and are simply expected to be run when submitted.

       The persistent queue works by calling a module callback function right  before  putting  a
       new  job in the internal queue for pending jobs to be run. This allows the module to store
       the job about to be run in some persistent way so that it can later be replayed  during  a
       restart.  Once  it  is  stored through the module, the job is put onto the active runnable
       queue, waking up available workers if needed. Once the job has been successfully completed
       by  a  worker,  another module callback function is called to notify the module the job is
       done and can be removed. If a job server crashes or is restarted between these  two  calls
       for  a  job,  the  jobs are reloaded during the next job server start. When the job server
       starts up, it will call a replay callback function in the module to provide a list of  all
       jobs that were not complete. This is used to populate the internal memory queue of jobs to
       be run. Once this replay is complete, the job server finishes its initialization  and  the
       jobs  are now runnable once workers connect (the queue should be in the same state as when
       it crashed). These jobs are removed from the persistent queue when  completed  as  normal.
       NOTE:  Deleting  jobs  from  the  persistent  queue  storage will not remove them from the
       in-memory queue while the server is running.

       The queues are implemented using a modular interface so it is easy to add new data  stores
       for the persistent queue.

       A  persistent queue module is enabled by passing the -q or –queue-type option to gearmand.
       Run gearmand –help to see which queue modules are supported on your  system.  If  you  are
       missing  options  for one you would like to use, you will need to install any dependencies
       and then recompile the gearmand package.

   Extended Protocols
       The protocol plugin interface allows  you  to  take  over  the  packet  send  and  receive
       functions, allowing you to pack the buffers as required by the protocol. The core read and
       write functions can (and should) be used by the protocol plugin.

   HTTP
       This protocol plugin allows you to map HTTP requests to Gearman  jobs.  It  only  provides
       client  job submission currently, but it may be extended to support other request types in
       the future. The plugin can handle both GET and POST data, the latter being used to send  a
       workload  to the job server. The URL being requested is translated into the function being
       called.

       For example, the request:

          POST /reverse HTTP/1.1
          Content-Length: 12

          Hello world!

       Is translated into a job submission request for the function “reverse” and workload “Hello
       world!”. This will respond with:

          HTTP/1.0 200 OK
          X-Gearman-Job-Handle: H:lap:4
          Content-Length: 12
          Server: Gearman/0.8

          !dlrow olleH

       The following headers can be passed to change the behavior of the job:

          * X-Gearman-Unique: <unique key>
          * X-Gearman-Background: true
          * X-Gearman-Priority: <high|low>

       For example, to run a low priority background job, the following request can be sent:

          POST /reverse HTTP/1.1
          Content-Length: 12
          X-Gearman-Background: true
          X-Gearman-Priority: low

          Hello world!

       The  response  for  this  request will not have any data associated with it since it was a
       background job:

          HTTP/1.0 200 OK
          X-Gearman-Job-Handle: H:lap:6
          Content-Length: 0
          Server: Gearman/0.8

       The HTTP protocol should be considered experimental.

HOME

       To find out more information please check: http://gearman.info/

SEE ALSO

       gearman(1) gearadmin(1) libgearmand(3)

AUTHOR

       Data Differential http://www.datadifferential.com/

COPYRIGHT

       2011-2024, Data Differential, http://www.datadifferential.com/