How do I clear stuck/stale Resque workers?

Question

As you can see from the attached image, I\'ve got a couple of workers that seem to be stuck. Those processes shouldn\'t take longer than a couple of seconds.

Answer 1

Here's how you can purge them from Redis by hostname. This happens to me when I decommission a server and workers do not exit gracefully.

Resque.workers.each { |w| w.unregister_worker if w.id.start_with?(hostname) }