NAME

       Gearman::Server - function call "router" and load balancer

DESCRIPTION

       You run a Gearman server (or more likely, many of them for both high-availability and load
       balancing), then have workers (using Gearman::Worker from the Gearman module, or libraries
       for other languages) register their ability to do certain functions to all of them, and
       then clients (using Gearman::Client, Gearman::Client::Async, etc) request work to be done
       from one of the Gearman servers.

       The servers connect them, routing function call requests to the appropriate workers,
       multiplexing responses to duplicate requests as requested, etc.

       More than likely, you want to use the provided "gearmand" in bin wrapper script, and not
       use Gearman::Server directly.

METHODS

   new
         $server_object = Gearman::Server->new( %options )

       Creates and returns a new Gearman::Server object, which attaches itself to the
       Danga::Socket event loop. The server will begin operating when the Danga::Socket runloop
       is started. This means you need to start up the runloop before anything will happen.

       Options:

       port
           Specify a port which you would like the Gearman::Server to listen on for TCP
           connections (not necessary, but useful)

   create_listening_sock
         $server_object->create_listening_sock( $portnum, \%options )

       Add a TCP port listener for incoming Gearman worker and client connections.  Options:

       accept_per_loop
       local_addr
           Bind socket to only this address.

   start_worker
         $pid = $server_object->start_worker( $prog )

         ($pid, $client) = $server_object->start_worker( $prog )

       Fork and start a worker process named by $prog and returns the pid (or pid and client
       object).

SEE ALSO

       "gearmand" in bin