Re: having standalone threads managed by netplex

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, this mostly worked great!  Defining a receive_message hook gives the
> very useful ability to dump out information using netplex-admin.

I forgot to say that for something like a session service, you might
find orpc useful, since you would be communicating OCaml to OCaml, and
it's nice to be give an OCaml signature instead of the ONC RPC
interface language:

  http://code.google.com/p/orpc2

> Oddly though, although I can call shutdown on the service, I can't seem to
> find a way to get it to restart the thread (post_start_hook is never called
> again, so it shuts down and stays down).  I'm guessing I need to mess around
> with the workload manager to prod it into making sure one service thread is
> always up.

Strange, I cannot reproduce this (on Fedora 7). Are you using
netplex-admin -restart? Also, if you kill a service (and probably if
you exit it as well, although I have not tried this), the controller
will restart it for you.

Jake

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