Kill all delayed_job workers

Question

I use delayed_job as a daemon http://wiki.github.com/tobi/delayed%5Fjob/running-delayedworker-as-a-daemon.

I can't tell why, but sometimes I see more than one job done by several workers (different pids), and running stop doesn't stop anything. is there a way to kill all daemons of this proc/all workers? Or kill a specific pid (I'm on a shared hosting so kill/killall aren't available for me).

Answer 1

Not having access to "kill" in this setup will quickly become a PITA, and it boggles my mind that you wouldn't have the ability to kill processes you yourself started.

For increased worker dependability, you might want to try the collectiveidea fork of delayed_job, and using the daemon-spawn gem rather than daemons. I've had better luck with that combination.