Stopping gearman workers nicely

Question

I have a number of Gearman workers running constantly, saving things like records of user page views, etc. Occasionally, I\'ll update the PHP code that is used by the Gearman w

Answer 1

http://phpscaling.com/2009/06/23/doing-the-work-elsewhere-sidebar-running-the-worker/

Like the above article demonstrates, I've run a worker inside a BASH shell script, exiting occasionally between jobs to cleanup (or re-load the worker-script) - or if a given task is given to it it can exit with a specific exit code and to shut down.