aviraj

aviraj

We have elixir application deployed on two servers. The application has been configured with some quantum jobs which execute from both servers at the same time. We want to limit execution of the quantum jobs to a single server. As per documentation, we could see the following options,

  1. Add global?: true to the job configuration
  2. run_strategy: {Quantum.RunStrategy.Random, :cluster}

We tried option (1), it didnt work. The job still executed from both servers. Do both (1) and (2) need to be set at the same time in a job? or there something else missing in the configuration

config :titan, Titan.Scheduler,
  timeout: 20_000,
  global?: true,
  jobs: [
    job_schedule: [
      schedule: "20 6 * * *",
      task: {Titan.ContentSchedule, :schedule_updates, []}
    ],
]

How does this clustering work? Even without giving the list of nodes, how do the two servers communicate among themselves to co-ordinate the job execution?

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hubertlepicki

hubertlepicki

Global has been removed in 3.0.0. quantum-core/CHANGELOG.md at 0ac628950b8de0a03ed914f1ca0c77c9ad93c4ac · quantum-elixir/quantum-core · GitHub
which is kind of soliving the problem because the implementation wasn’t great and was causing us a lot of trouble with unexpected behavior.

You probably want to use Oban, which will guarantee scheduled jobs uniqueness on the PostgreSQL level:
https://github.com/sorentwo/oban#periodic-jobs

You can also use something like GitHub - SchedEx/SchedEx: Simple scheduling for Elixir · GitHub but you will have to wrap it with own code to make only one process in cluster is started per job, I have been doing that with Horde.DynamicSupervisor. But honestly, if asked to implement it today, I would just use Oban.

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connorlay

connorlay

Hey! I recently solved this problem of running globally unique jobs in a clustered Elixir application. The project was written using Quantum 2, which had built-in support for clustering via the global: true mode. In our experience the implementation of global jobs was unreliable and we found that many jobs would stop executing entirely.

After doing some research, we ended up moving from Quantum to periodic for the job scheduler, combined with highlander to ensure uniqueness in the cluster.

I have a proof-of-concept here that shows the basic functionality.

poops

poops

I had this same issue where I had to move off Oban because it locked a table and took our entire application down. Moved to quantum 3 and used highlander to have quantum run on only one process:

https://github.com/quantum-elixir/quantum-core/issues/411#issuecomment-652733990

connorlay

connorlay

Fixed! Thanks for pointing that out :smile:

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bartblast

bartblast

Creator of Hologram

There is also the Citrine package, that aims to solve the cron clustering problem.

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