configure-runners.md

Configuring Runners

Overview

The default runner (Symbiote\QueuedJobs\Tasks\Engines\QueueRunner) isn't great for any serious queue throughput, and causes delays before a job gets picked up. Here's some alternatives.

You might also be interested in ways to run immediate jobs through watchers such as inotifyd.

Using Doorman for running jobs

Doorman is included by default, and allows for asynchronous task processing.

This requires that you are running an a unix based system, or within some kind of environment emulator such as cygwin.

In order to enable this, configure the ProcessJobQueueTask to use this backend.

---
Name: localproject
After: '#queuedjobsettings'
---
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
  Symbiote\QueuedJobs\Services\QueuedJobService:
    properties:
      queueRunner: %$DoormanRunner

See Multi process execution in Doorman for more ways to increase concurrency in Doorman.

Using Gearman for running jobs

• Make sure gearmand is installed
• Get the gearman module from https://github.com/nyeholt/silverstripe-gearman
• Create a _config/queuedjobs.yml file in your project with the following declaration

---
Name: localproject
After: '#queuedjobsettings'
---
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
  QueueHandler:
    class: Symbiote\QueuedJobs\Services\GearmanQueueHandler

• Run the gearman worker using php gearman/gearman_runner.php in your SS root dir

This will cause all queuedjobs to trigger immediate via a gearman worker (src/workers/JobWorker.php) EXCEPT those with a StartAfter date set, for which you will STILL need the cron settings from above