Timwi wrote:
How do you ensure, though, that the rate of emptying the queue is overall less than the rate of filling it? In other words, can you guarantee that no matter how full it gets it will eventually empty?
By hitting it with a rock until it goes back down. ;)
If we should find that it empties too slowly, we'll just add another machine to run on the queue.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)