job-scheduling

Is sleep() a good idea for the main loop of a job-scheduling app

I'm writing a job-scheduling app in Ruby for my work (primarily to move files using various protocol at a given frequency) My main loop looks like this : while true do # some code to launch the proper job sleep CONFIG["interval"] end It's working like a charm, but I'm not really sure if it is safe enough as the application might ...

Schedule an event to execute SQL statements everytime the mysql server is started

Hi, I want a stored procedure to execute so that it updates a specific column in a table every time mysql server is started (to be precise when windows boots and mysql is started as a part of service automatically). Can somebody point out the syntax? Or the care to be taken to do something like this. I know the events were included as...

Alternative GUI for Open Source Job Scheduler?

Are there some alternative open source GUI developed to improve the management of jobs and job chains in Open Source Job Scheduler? ...

Alternatives to Quartz for job scheduling

Has anyone found any alternative open-source solutions to Quartz which they are happy with? I know Cronacle is a well respected (and pricey) closed source solution for job scheduling but I'd like to make sure we exhaust the open-source alternatives before going down that route. ...

Exe name like update.exe blocked by UAC in scheduled task

Hi folks I have a problem with windows UAC, scheduled tasks and a executable named "dbupdate.exe". I have full power over source code, manifests and so on, but not over user systems (short: normal software engineer ;-). Language is Delphi, but shouldn't be important I think. I have a problem using an application in task scheduler in wi...

Job scheduling /process automation with focus on dependency handling

Hi, I'm looking for some open source software that can handle the execution of jobs in dependency of each other in a Unix environment (linux and solaris). It should "just" be able to run plain unix processes (no network load-balance remote voodoo needed). E.g. I define a bunch of jobs and want to be able to chain them together with dep...

Privileges for a Oracle 9i statistics job

We want to move our automated statistics gathering from an external script into Oracle 9i's job scheduler. It's a very simple job, and the code basically looks like this: DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT( JOB => <output variable>, WHAT => 'DBMS_STATS.GATHER_DATABASE_STATS( cascade => TRUE, options => ''GATHER AUTO'');', NEXT_DA...

What is a good open source job scheduler in Java?

Hi, In an application harvesting (a thousand) RSS feeds, I want to dynamically schedule the feed downloaders based on the following criteria: The speed at which content are generated - source which produce content at a higher rate need to be visited more often. After downloading a feed, its content is analyzed and based on the current...

Job Shop Scheduling: Shifting Bottleneck

Hello I'm currently looking into quick graph because I need to implement Job Shop Scheduling. I have been researching and found the shifting bottleneck algorithm very promising. As I'm not really proficient in math and search algorithm I wanted to ask you guys if shifting bottleneck would fit into my problem domain and how this could be...

Scheduling Jobs On web server

Hi Folks We Want to Create an online game like this.I think that ,this type of games have a scheduling software on web server. For Example : Player Click to create a resource And resource creation will be take a moment like 20 Minutes.(Every resource creation time will be different). This message will send to web server application but ...

How do i dynamically create a job schedule in a trigger?

I am creating a library system. When a book is reserved, i want it to automatically change the status back to "Available" in 3 days if the reserved user does not borrow it. I can create a trigger to fire when the status is changed to "Reserved" but I am lost on creating a job to happen in 3 days and change the status back to "Availabl...

Help with a task scheduling algorithm

I am working on an application in which thousands of tasks associated with hundreds of devices, each task requiring, < 5ms to begin execution, and taking on average 100ms to complete. The conditions are as such: Each device can only process a single task at a time, e.g., one task must finish running on its assigned device prior to ...