scheduling

Quartz.NET trigger not firing

i am using Quartz.NET in my ASP.NET web application. i put the following code in a button click handler to make sure that it executes (for testing purposes): Quartz.ISchedulerFactory factory = new Quartz.Impl.StdSchedulerFactory(); Quartz.IScheduler scheduler = factory.GetScheduler(); Quartz.JobDetail job = new Quartz.JobDetail("job", n...

Project management tool for just 2 people?

Hi, We are a two people team of software developers and have just started working on a new project. We have a myriad of very small non-critical tasks and some bigger tasks which are usually time-critical to manage. I am looking for a tool that would allow us to Add, keep track of and prioritize tasks Manage dependencies between tasks ...

ASP.net weekly schedule control

Can anyone recommend a free asp.net control that I can use for the following: Weekdays Monday-Saturday along the top row Time of day along left hand side Template fields for the actual data Databindable Cells span the rows based on the start time and end time Here is a control that I found that is pretty good, but I am trying to find...

Operating System Scheduling Algorithms

What is the best algorithm to use for scheduling an application that will support 10K concurrent threads with heavy I/O but low CPU usage? Links to papers are appreciated. ...

Enterprise level employee/planning/scheduling tool

Hi everybody. (I ask this here, waiting for the IT Admin StackOverflow to become reality!) The IT Operations Dept of our company (media, about 4000 employees), is searching for a scheduling/planning tool. Our requirements are: It should be Open Source software (highly preferred) It will be used by about 100 concurrent users, and the...

Alternative to MS Project 2007 for production scheduling?

OK... Im coming to grips with the fact that MS Project 2007 may not be the correct tool for my production scheduling. We serve 120 to 150 projects a year with durations from 6 weeks to 12 months. The task are simple (6 to 8 per project) and the resource pool is stable (15 to 20 people). It's really an assembly line product but with ...

Scheduled jobs in ASP.NET website without buying dedicated servers.

How can i perform various task (such as email alert/sending news letter) on a configured schedule time on a shared hosting server. thankx dude , i love this website. ...

Is there an advantage of the operating system understanding the characteristics of how a thread may be used?

Is there an advantage of the operating system understanding the characteristics of how a thread may be used? For example, what if there were a way in Java when creating a new thread to indicate that it would be used for intensive CPU calculations vs will block for I/O. Wouldn't thread scheduling improve if this were a capability? ...

why have user context and kernel context ... unix

operating systems related question dunno if i can ask here but thought i would get proper explanation in this forum when a process be exec in user context... wont the higher priority precesses in kernel context blocking the process in user context all the time... it is hazy for me... the concepts ...... ...

How to implement a practical fiber scheduler?

I know the very basics about using coroutines as a base and implementing a toy scheduler. But I assume it's oversimplified view about asynchronous schedulers in whole. There are whole set of holes missing in my thoughts. How to keep the cpu from running a scheduler that's running idle/waiting? Some fibers just sleep, others wait for inp...

Determining the amount of time processes spend Blocking/Executing

OK so for a programming assignment that I have (Yes, we are all allowed to turn to any source we find suitable for help) I have to find out how much time processes spend blocking/sleeping/running. My first attempt was creating a bash script... that looked something like this: for i in `ls /proc/ | egrep [0-9]+` do cat /proc/$i...

Scheduling on shared hosting

I'm in the process of writing a scheduling application on a shared hosting server. So far it doesn't look like my scheduling will have to be any more granular than daily, but that could change later. Ideally, I'll want to use a Windows host so I write my application in .NET but I'm open to using a PHP+*nix host. In a shared hosting envi...

What is the best way to schedule a task in gemstone?

My website runs on gemstone. To provide users with statistical data I need to run periodical tasks. How is this achieved best in gesmtone? From within gemstone or from the operating system? And would be topaz the right way to go? ...

Java - Scheduling a daily task

I'm looking for an effective way to execute a method everyday at 3PM regardless of when the application was initially run or how long it has been running. This must be done entirely from the application with no OS intervention (ex. Windows Task Scheduler) I have been experimenting with java.util.Timer in varies configurations but I hav...

What's the best way to implement a scheduled job using a windows service

I have a database job that runs occasionally at night and I need a windows service to poll the database regularly to do some more work after the SQL job is done. I am a looking for a solid example to write a scheduler that can fail gracefully without crashing the service. ...

Using Windows Service as a scheduling service

Hi, I have this question from a client, to run some database scripts on a daily or biweekly basis, depending on the type of period. They have defined a 'busy' period and a 'quiet' period. They are using shared hosting for their applications and they can't add SQL Server jobs to their database. What I want to do is create a windows serv...

PBS (torque) fails to consider quad core processors as 4 processors

I have a Debian cluster with 2 nodes and two quad-core processors each. I use Torque and Maui as scheduler. When I try to run an MPI job with 16 processes, the scheduler is not able to run the job: either it puts it to the queue (although there is not any job runing at that moment) or runs and the resulting output file says that you was ...

Scheduling Swingworker threads

Hi, I have a 2 processes to perform in my swing application, one to fill a list, and one to do operations on each element on the list. I've just moved the 2 processes into Swingworker threads to stop the GUI locking up while the tasks are performed, and because I will need to do this set of operations to several lists, so concurrency wo...

How to schedule a C# Windows Service to run a method daily?

Possible Duplicate: How might I schedule a C# Windows Service to perform a task daily? I am creating a C# Windows Service, but I didn't figure out the best way to make timer fire a method daily at a specific time specified in App.Config file (e.g. daily at 6:00AM, my method is executed). How do you do it? Thanks ...

How to scale the Quartz scheduler?

I plan to use the Quartz scheduler as I read many good opinions about it. My problem is as follows: I will have thousands of triggers living in the system at any given time. Most of the triggers will fire just one event and die. In addition, it is very likely I will have to cancel many jobs after their allocation (based on new input). ...