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- <h1>Frequently Asked Questions<a class="headerlink" href="#frequently-asked-questions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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- <h2>Questions<a class="headerlink" href="#questions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <div class="section" id="mysql-is-throwing-deadlock-errors-what-can-i-do">
- <h3>MySQL is throwing deadlock errors, what can I do?<a class="headerlink" href="#mysql-is-throwing-deadlock-errors-what-can-i-do" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p><strong>Answer:</strong> MySQL has default isolation level set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REPEATABLE-READ</span></tt>,
- if you don’t really need that, set it to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">READ-COMMITTED</span></tt>.
- You can do that by adding the following to your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">my.cnf</span></tt>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mysqld</span><span class="p">]</span>
- <span class="n">transaction</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">isolation</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">READ</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">COMMITTED</span>
- </pre></div>
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- <p>For more information about InnoDBs transaction model see <a class="reference external" href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-transaction-model.html">MySQL - The InnoDB
- Transaction Model and Locking</a> in the MySQL user manual.</p>
- <p>(Thanks to Honza Kral and Anton Tsigularov for this solution)</p>
- </div>
- <div class="section" id="celeryd-is-not-doing-anything-just-hanging">
- <h3>celeryd is not doing anything, just hanging<a class="headerlink" href="#celeryd-is-not-doing-anything-just-hanging" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p><strong>Answer:</strong> See <a class="reference internal" href="#mysql-is-throwing-deadlock-errors-what-can-i-do">MySQL is throwing deadlock errors, what can I do?</a>.</p>
- </div>
- <div class="section" id="i-m-having-integrityerror-duplicate-key-errors-why">
- <h3>I’m having <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">IntegrityError:</span> <span class="pre">Duplicate</span> <span class="pre">Key</span></tt> errors. Why?<a class="headerlink" href="#i-m-having-integrityerror-duplicate-key-errors-why" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p><strong>Answer:</strong> See <a class="reference internal" href="#mysql-is-throwing-deadlock-errors-what-can-i-do">MySQL is throwing deadlock errors, what can I do?</a>.
- Thanks to howsthedotcom.</p>
- </div>
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- <h3>Why won’t my Task run?<a class="headerlink" href="#why-won-t-my-task-run" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p><strong>Answer:</strong> Did you register the task in the applications <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tasks.py</span></tt> module?
- (or in some other module Django loads by default, like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">models.py</span></tt>?).
- Also there might be syntax errors preventing the tasks module being imported.</p>
- <p>You can find out if the celery daemon is able to run the task by executing the
- task manually:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">myapp.tasks</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">MyPeriodicTask</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">MyPeriodicTask</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">delay</span><span class="p">()</span>
- </pre></div>
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- <p>Watch celery daemons logfile (or output if not running as a daemon), to see
- if it’s able to find the task, or if some other error is happening.</p>
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- <div class="section" id="why-won-t-my-periodic-task-run">
- <h3>Why won’t my Periodic Task run?<a class="headerlink" href="#why-won-t-my-periodic-task-run" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#why-won-t-my-task-run">Why won’t my Task run?</a>.</p>
- </div>
- <div class="section" id="can-i-send-some-tasks-to-only-some-servers">
- <h3>Can I send some tasks to only some servers?<a class="headerlink" href="#can-i-send-some-tasks-to-only-some-servers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>As of now there is only one use-case that works like this, and that is
- tasks of type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">A</span></tt> can be sent to servers <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt>, while tasks
- of type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">B</span></tt> can be sent to server <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt>. One server can’t handle more than
- one routing_key, but this is coming in a later release.</p>
- <p>Say you have two servers, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>, and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt> that handles regular tasks,
- and one server <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt>, that only handles feed related tasks, you can use this
- configuration:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li>Servers <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt>: settings.py:</li>
- </ul>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">AMQP_SERVER</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"rabbit"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_PORT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">5678</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_USER</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"myapp"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_PASSWORD</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"secret"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_VHOST</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"myapp"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_CONSUMER_QUEUE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"regular_tasks"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_EXCHANGE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"tasks"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_PUBLISHER_ROUTING_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"task.regular"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_CONSUMER_ROUTING_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"task.#"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_EXCHANGE_TYPE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"topic"</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li>Server <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt>: settings.py:</li>
- </ul>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">AMQP_SERVER</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"rabbit"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_PORT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">5678</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_USER</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"myapp"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_PASSWORD</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"secret"</span>
- <span class="n">AMQP_VHOST</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"myapp"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_CONSUMER_QUEUE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"feed_tasks"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_EXCHANGE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"tasks"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_PUBLISHER_ROUTING_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"task.regular"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_CONSUMER_ROUTING_KEY</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"task.feed.#"</span>
- <span class="n">CELERY_AMQP_EXCHANGE_TYPE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"topic"</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </blockquote>
- <p>Now to make a Task run on the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt> server you need to set its
- <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">routing_key</span></tt> attribute so it starts with the words <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"task.feed."</span></tt>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">feedaggregator.models</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Feed</span>
- <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">celery.task</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Task</span>
- <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">FeedImportTask</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Task</span><span class="p">):</span>
- <span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"import_feed"</span>
- <span class="n">routing_key</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">"task.feed.importer"</span>
- <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">run</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">feed_url</span><span class="p">):</span>
- <span class="c"># something importing the feed</span>
- <span class="n">Feed</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">import_feed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">feed_url</span><span class="p">)</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>You can also override this using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">routing_key</span></tt> argument to
- <a title="celery.task.apply_async" class="reference external" href="reference/celery.task.html#celery.task.apply_async"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">celery.task.apply_async()</span></tt></a>:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">celery.task</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">apply_async</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">myapp.tasks</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">RefreshFeedTask</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">apply_async</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">RefreshFeedTask</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">"http://cnn.com/rss"</span><span class="p">],</span>
- <span class="gp">... </span> <span class="n">routing_key</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"task.feed.importer"</span><span class="p">)</span>
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