[Zope-dev] Xron fragility

[Loren Stafford]

From: "Kapil Thangavelu" <kthangavelu@earthlink.net>


[snip]
> > > Xron has a single dispatcher thread. This thread knows how long to
sleep
> > > for until the next job needs to run.
>
> this model has problems when new jobs (for immeadiate execution) are
> entered after the system sleeps. i think it should it taken into
account
> that people will use this dispatching thread to achieve async
operations
> on a request, and that these might need to be done immeadiately.
>

This is not (or should not be) a problem in current Xron design. The
Dispatcher wakes up early if the Schedule catalog is changed.

-- Loren