[Backgroundrb-devel] Cleaing up after workers in backgroundrb

[hemant kumar]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 08:43 -0500, mike bukhin wrote:
> I just remember that in the older version of backgroundrb I was having
> memory/performance issues until I added self.delete to do_work.  Then
> those problems went away.  My worker is very simple:
> 
> class ContextWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker
> 
>   set_worker_name :context_worker
>   pool_size 5
> 
> 
>   def create(args = nil)
> 
>   end
> 
>   def process_context(context_id)
>     require 'context_update'
>     @r_update = ContextUpdate.new(Time.now)
>     @r_update.load_public_context(context_id)
>   end
> 
> end
> 
> 
> The bulk of the code is in libraries.  So you're saying I self.delete
> is the same as putting exit after
> @r_update.load_public_context(context_id)?
> 

As far as I remember self.delete used to delete/exit the current worker.
"exit" does the same thing in newer version.