Re: [mh] Is this the expected behaviour of process_item?

Thanks H

I'll build a queue and update the docs over the weekend

Giles

On 18/02/2021 14:24, H Plato wrote:
> As far as I know that’s how it works, the process_item has a single 
> thread. You can check if the process_item is still active by 
> calling$p_longproc->done(), and then queuing the additional commands 
> to an array. That’s how I’ve dealt with this in some of my modules
>
>> On Feb 18, 2021, at 1:22 AM, Giles Godart-Brown 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I use process_items to send messages and urls, occasionally (usually 
>> when I write bad code) I need to send a lot of emails in quick 
>> succession but MisterHouse kills any unfinished ones, rather than 
>> running them in parallel which is what I expected. To test this I 
>> built a minimum reproducible case below where it launches a process 
>> that simply sleeps for 5 seconds twice in succession. As you can see 
>> from the print log, he first one gets killed.
>>
>> Is this normal?
>>
>> Giles
>>
>> <mytest.pl>
>>
>> print_log( "Longproc run 1", "INFORMATIONAL", "p_longproc" );
>> start $p_longproc;
>> print_log( "Longproc run 2", "INFORMATIONAL", "p_longproc" );
>> start $p_longproc;
>> </mytest.pl>
>>
>> <longproc.sh>
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # shell to sleep
>> echo longproc start 5 second sleep pid= $$
>> sleep 5
>> echo "longproc end"
>> exit 0
>> </longproc.sh>
>>
>> <print.log>
>>
>> 18/02/2021 08:10:27 [p_longproc] INFO Longproc run 1
>> 18/02/2021 08:10:27 [p_longproc] INFO Longproc run 2
>> Warning, a previous 'start' on this process has not finished yet
>> Killing unfinished process id 9380 
>> cmd=//home/pi/mh/GGBcode/procs/longproc.sh
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 18/02/2021 08:10:33 [p_longproc] longproc start 5 second sleep pid= 9381
>> 18/02/2021 08:10:33 [p_longproc] longproc end
>>
>> </print.log>
>>
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