in ps -l, what does wchan=stext mean?
Hi! when I try to fine-tune my process, I see that the waiting channel is stext, what does it mean? thanks mehageg ...
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Automated Class timetable optimize crawler?
Overall Plan Get my class information to automatically optimize and select my uni class timetable Overall Algorithm Logon to the website using its Enterprise Sign On Engine login Find my current semester and its related subjects (pre setup) Navigate to the right page and get the data from each related subject (lecture, practical and ...
Calibrating Development Schedules
Are there any online repositories of completed real-world projects with their timescales that I can use to callibrate my own development time estimates? ...
How to schedule a Callable to run on a specific time?
I need to run a callable at a specific time of day. One way to do it is to calculate the timediff between now and the desired time , and to use the executor.scheduleAtFixedRate . Have a better idea? executor.scheduleAtFixedRate(command, TIMEDIFF(now,run_time), period, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) ...
A priority queue which allows efficient priority update?
UPDATE: Here's my implementation of Hashed Timing Wheels. Please let me know if you have an idea to improve the performance and concurrency. (20-Jan-2009) // Sample usage: public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Timer timer = new HashedWheelTimer(); for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i ++) { timer.newTimeout(...
Schedule delegate calls
I want a way to be able to schedule callbacks, I want to be able register lots of different callbacks at various times to a "Scheduler"-object. Something like this. public class Foo { public void Bar() { Scheduler s = new Scheduler(); s.Schedule(() => Debug.WriteLine("Hello in an hour!"), DateTime.Now.AddHours(1)...
How might I schedule a C# Windows Service to perform a task daily?
I have a service written in C# (.NET 1.1) and want it to perform some cleanup actions at midnight every night. I have to keep all code contained within the service, so what's the easiest way to accomplish this? Use of Thread.Sleep() and checking for the time rolling over? ...
How to make computer return from standby mode
I would like my computer to do specific tasks periodically or at a specific time. Such as: to wake up each 15 minutes, connect to the Internet, check e-mail, beep (if there is unread mail), then go standby again to wake up at 8 am and play music In the best case, it should be asleep and therefore, silent and going low-power. It's n...
What is the best way to schedule a sending-email task with Ruby on Rails?
hi, I would like to schedule a daily task : every day at 7am, I want an email to be sent (without human intervention). I'm working on the RoR framework and I'm wondering what is the best way to do that? I've heard about BackgrounDRB, OpenWFEru scheduler or things based on Cron, but I'm a newbie and don't understand which one is made f...
Using Quartz with Spring
In my application there is a requirement to be able to create Scheduled Job(s) depending on the type of Request that comes in (Dynamically). Can I still use Spring to create and trigger Jobs? If Yes, how? Any help would be useful. ...
Which enterprise scheduling to use?
If you had to choose an enterprise scheduling system which would you choose and why? The current contenders are: UC4 v CA AutoSys. ...
How to program a schedule...
Hello! I have to build a program that schedules based on certain rules. I'm not sure how to explain it, so let me give you an example.. You have Five People A,B,C,D,E. And you Have another set of people S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7. If A B C D and E are available every hour from 9 to 5, and S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 and S7 have a list of 3 people they...
Azure Task Scheduler
While this question is particular to Azure, I'm sure that it is a common situation for cloud computing in general. I have a list of tasks that I need run at a certain time. With a window's server, I can use Task Scheduler and schedule my program to run at a certain time. I could go a step further and create a windows service that woul...
mutually-exclusive job scheduling in GNU make?
Using GNU make, is it possible to create a set of targets that will never be scheduled at the same time when using the "--jobs" option? Background: To make this a little more concrete, consider a makefile of the form p1: ...deps... # no parallelization conflicts (can run at the same time as p*, e*) ...rules... p2: ...deps... ...
Scheduling software that solves time constraints
Is there good software or a good toolkit for coordinating schedules and organizing meetings? The concrete problem I have to solve: I have a people from group A, and b people from group B. Now schedule individual meetings between people in A and people in B. This is a real-life problem. There is an open day in a company, which has s...
What Windows API to look into for building a scheduling application?
Why not use the Windows scheduler? I have several applications that have to run at certain times according to business rules not the typical every weekday at 1pm. I also need a way for the applications to provide feedback of their progress so that I can have rules that notify me when the applications are running slow or aren't even run...
Scheduling parameterized reports in Crystal Reports Server
I'm trying to set up a report to run monthly in Crystal Reports Server 2008 that will give me the next month's Affordable Care Plan termination dates. However, as far as I can tell, I can only give it a particular date string, not "7 days after the report is scheduled". How do I do this? (Same question for CR2008, actually, but the serve...
Java library class to handle scheduled execution of "callbacks"?
My program has a component - dubbed the Scheduler - that lets other components register points in time at which they want to be called back. This should work much like the Unix cron service, i. e. you tell the Scheduler "notify me at ten minutes past every full hour". I realize there are no real callbacks in Java. Here's my approach, i...
Scheduling in Linux: run a task when computer is idle (= no user input)
I want to run Folding@home client on my Ubuntu 8.10 box only when it's idle because of the program's heavy RAM consumption. By "idle" I mean the state when there's no user activity (keyboard, mouse or any other else). It's ok for other (probably heavy) processes to run at that time since F@H has the lowest CPU priority. The point is ju...
How to make schtasks work after the user's password has changed?
On Windows machines, schtasks is a utility similar to cron for scheduling jobs to run on a regular basis. Problem is, when you define a schtask, you must specify the userid and password of the account to run the job. Then later, when the user changes his password, that schtask will no longer work. It must be deleted and rescheduled wit...