workload

Can you recommend an open source workload automation (job scheduling) tool?

I need a workload automation tool, similar to BMC Control-M or CA Autosys which is open source and preferably written in Java. What do you recommend? ...

Is excessive use of lucene good?

In my project, entire searching and listing of content is depend on Lucene. I am not facing any performance issues. Still, the project is in development phase and long way to go in production. I have to find out the performance issues before the project completed in large structure. Whether the excessive use of lucene is feasible or no...

Workload Distribution / Parallel Execution in JAVA

Dear All, I have a situation here where I need to distribute work over to multiple JAVA processes running in different JVMs, probably different machines. Lets say I have a table with records 1 to 1000. I am looking for work to be collected and distributed is sets of 10. Lets say records 1-10 to workerOne. Then records 11-20 to workerT...

Optimal number of items to keep queued for the thread pool in .NET?

I am building a background processing engine which supports discarding both to-be-processed and is-being-processed items. This is for usage in a winforms application that will require heavy processing of some input elements, so I'm building a queue engine where I can enqueue workload items, and when they're processed, I get notified with...