We use resque as our background jobs systems, and resque-pool to manage multiple resque workers on a jobs server.
Starting and Stopping Workers
On a jobs server, logged in as ubuntu or a personal account.
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However, this has all been very confusing and hard to get right with resque. It may not be working exactly how we expect, and there is also room for improvement; look for a Github issue on it.
Ansible may re-start resque-pool
You may think you’ve stopped resque-pool, but ansible may decide to start it up again. Either at the nightly 5am run, or more disturbingly if someone commits a change to repo and ansible decides it has to push it out.
Resque front end
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/admin/queues/overview
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