<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Marek Majkowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'd solve it by sending a message 'QUIT' to the queue once we're sure<br>that no other work is left in the queue. A worker that receives that<br>QUIT message may think - okay, there is at least one more 'behaving'<br>worker, I can't see any work to do, he also can't see any more work,<br>one of us can happily go home.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is an interesting approach. I was handling the QUIT message when I received it rather than spooling off into a separate thread a "watcher" that only did the clean up after it saw that no more work needed to be done.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>Thanks!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">J. Brisbin</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://jbrisbin.com/">http://jbrisbin.com/</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>
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