2010-05-12 23:33:50 +02:00
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Task spooler is a Unix batch system where the tasks spooled run one after
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the other. The amount of jobs to run at once can be set at any time. Each
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user in each system has his own job queue. The tasks are run in the correct
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2011-12-10 21:41:01 +01:00
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context (that of enqueue) from any shell/process, and its output/results
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can be easily watched. It is very useful when you know that your commands
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depend on a lot of RAM, a lot of disk use, give a lot of output, or for
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whatever reason it's better not to run them all at the same time, while you
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want to keep your resources busy for maximum benfit. Its interface allows
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using it easily in scripts.
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2010-05-12 23:33:50 +02:00
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Features
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Task Spooler allows one to:
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* Queue jobs from different terminals.
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* Use it locally in the machine (not as in network queues).
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* Have a good way of seeing the output of the processes (tail,
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errorlevels, ...).
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* Easy use: almost no configuration.
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* Easy to use in scripts.
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At the end, after some time using and developing ts, it can do something
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more:
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* It works in GNU systems with the GNU c compiler (Linux, Darwin,
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Cygwin, FreeBSD, etc).
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* No configuration at all for a simple queue.
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* Good integration with renice, kill, etc. (through `ts -p` and process
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groups).
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* Have any amount of queues identified by name, writting a simple
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wrapper script for each (I use ts2, tsio, tsprint, etc).
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* Control how many jobs may run at once in any queue (taking profit of
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multicores).
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* It never removes the result files, so they can be reached even after
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we've lost the ts task list.
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* Transparent if used as a subprogram with -nf.
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