From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C1E13877A for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78470E0A85; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 410FFE0A70 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id q58so5546970wes.21 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 07:03:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NeMevMeJNozqhlaIR9y3Cdm/aou2F+DexwwNJAPeP8o=; b=d/rZORW/3Nnis9s6yWsIYdv9NQ+ezZBSf2uLPYffPVGdQaf4sguHH5std78mYCJARd wSbgi5AlSz0WzTgN+M+/jyf+SgNjoI8TPr9k7qyxz/43dP1RQRdJqdkFRHEIAtVnJQH5 QtQifUbtwOkrpTT195mI9QxikCpIrTY5T1SooDjAbNBhbT8AI/hFpO9NTDEU2EmnYJ6q hAvVzcitBEU3C8aH7tJxfEi886yApB3nG1JaeNwMG/ETM2R5GBDFvGNV+WOqjVEgYlsv 7fpOFt4qijotp/rw0cxwiMk02ejp0yN6U/QoGod/pWazrrKZ7AzIMIOXhIjd/ZKz2j2E Htyw== X-Received: by 10.180.20.14 with SMTP id j14mr16555260wie.48.1406988236926; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 07:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-190-183.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.190.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id au7sm28502466wjc.41.2014.08.02.07.03.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Aug 2014 07:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53DCEF97.4070901@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 16:03:03 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for scheduler References: <53DBCF34.6060601@gmail.com> <53DCB06A.5080600@gmail.com> <1424820.ClPMfftIKn@andromeda> In-Reply-To: <1424820.ClPMfftIKn@andromeda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1b2de311-6a5e-4253-8e3a-a0d4aa8ef27c X-Archives-Hash: db787b76f702ace2bcd813d54254be47 On 02/08/2014 15:31, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Depends on the specific requirements. > > If you want: > > - time based start of a schedule > > - dependencies in said schedules and between schedules which can delay > the actual start > > - stop of schedule if error occurs > > - ability to restart schedule from crashed point > > - have schedules operate over multiple machines (eg. part run on > database, some on a compute-cluster, some other bit making nice graphs > and printing it,...) > > > > Then you might be out of luck. > > If anyone has something that is already going along these lines, please > let me know. I am more then willing to spend time and effort to assist > in the development. Doing a project like that on my own in my extremely > limited free time is not really an option. > Well, we've found 2 projects that at least in part seek to achieve our general goals - chronos and Martin's new project. Why don't we both fool around with them for a bit and get a sense of what it will take to add features etc? Then we can meet back here and discuss. Always better to build on an existing foundation -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com