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Check to see if the job has been running more then 3 hours

Open stuartshields opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

When a job is stuck (long running jobs) it makes it hard to delete the job when using plugins like WP Crontrol.

This PR is based on a solution that has been tested and is being used on an existing project that allows for us to delete these jobs via WP Control.

Props: @ivankristianto

stuartshields avatar Mar 06 '24 07:03 stuartshields

I don't want to make specific assumptions in Cavalcade itself about the run time of jobs or similar, as it's designed to be generic infrastructure; a 3 hour job could be normal in the context of a particular site.

From what I see here, the issue is that Crontrol doesn't have any ability to "force" deletion, which kind of makes sense there. If a job is actually currently running, what does it mean to cancel it? Would we need to kill the process? (And what implications does that have for the partially-completed job?)

Ideally, if we could lift this functionality up, that seems like the best option; i.e. add into the Crontrol UI the distinction. This would allow per-project discretion, while also making it clear to the user what the implications are.

rmccue avatar Mar 06 '24 09:03 rmccue