GeventWorker class to use with rq. All credits to https://github.com/jhorman from https://github.com/nvie/rq/issues/303#issuecomment-45304465 comment.

gevent_rqworker.py

from __future__ import absolute_import

import signal
import gevent
import gevent.pool
from rq import Worker
from rq.timeouts import BaseDeathPenalty, JobTimeoutException
from rq.worker import StopRequested, green, blue
from rq.exceptions import DequeueTimeout


class GeventDeathPenalty(BaseDeathPenalty):
    def setup_death_penalty(self):
        exception = JobTimeoutException('Gevent Job exceeded maximum timeout value (%d seconds).' % self._timeout)
        self.gevent_timeout = gevent.Timeout(self._timeout, exception)
        self.gevent_timeout.start()

    def cancel_death_penalty(self):
        self.gevent_timeout.cancel()


class GeventWorker(Worker):
    death_penalty_class = GeventDeathPenalty

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pool_size = 20
        if 'pool_size' in kwargs:
            pool_size = kwargs.pop('pool_size')
        self.gevent_pool = gevent.pool.Pool(pool_size)
        super(GeventWorker, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_ident(self):
        return id(gevent.getcurrent())

    def _install_signal_handlers(self):
        def request_force_stop():
            self.log.warning('Cold shut down.')
            self.gevent_pool.kill()
            raise SystemExit()

        def request_stop():
            if not self._stopped:
                gevent.signal(signal.SIGINT, request_force_stop)
                gevent.signal(signal.SIGTERM, request_force_stop)

                self.log.warning('Warm shut down requested.')
                self.log.warning('Stopping after all greenlets are finished. '
                                 'Press Ctrl+C again for a cold shutdown.')

                self._stopped = True
                self.gevent_pool.join()

        gevent.signal(signal.SIGINT, request_stop)
        gevent.signal(signal.SIGTERM, request_stop)

    def execute_job(self, job):
        self.gevent_pool.spawn(self.perform_job, job)

    def dequeue_job_and_maintain_ttl(self, timeout):
        if self._stopped:
            raise StopRequested()

        result = None
        while True:
            if self._stopped:
                raise StopRequested()

            self.heartbeat()

            while self.gevent_pool.full():
                gevent.sleep(0.1)
                if self._stopped:
                    raise StopRequested()

            try:
                result = self.queue_class.dequeue_any(self.queues, 5, connection=self.connection)
                if result is None and timeout is None:
                    self.gevent_pool.join()
                if result is not None:
                    job, queue = result
                    self.log.info('%s: %s (%s)' % (green(queue.name),
                                  blue(job.description), job.id))
                break
            except DequeueTimeout:
                pass

        self.heartbeat()
        return result

The problem with rqworker is it doesn't apply the gevent monkey patching. If I were to stick

import gevent.monkey
gevent.monkey.patch_all()

at the top of the rqworker file, it works. I don't use rqworker, I use a custom main method.

I forked your gist and made some changes to properly support shutdown, I think. One thing I changed was I ignore timeout in dequeue_job_and_maintain_ttl b/c the default is to wait 360 seconds, which means Warm shutdown doesn't really work quickly enough. I don't think it really matters much as this function loops forever until it gets a job anyway.

Thanks for updates and explanations!

rq/rq#376 (comment)

I don't understand why

result = self.queue_class.dequeue_any(self.queues, 5, connection=self.connection)
if result is None and timeout is None:
       self.gevent_pool.join()

not the default:

result = self.queue_class.dequeue_any(self.queues, timeout, connection=self.connection)

as @jhorman said, when calling dequeue_any, will it ignore the shudown signal?

How do you terminate a job, but not the whole process?

For example, a job spawns greenlets on its own and fatal error occurs in one of those greenlets, making entire job pointless, how can this job be removed from the pool?

I made some modifications, and pack it in a package, @lechup is it OK? This is the repo: https://github.com/zhangliyong/rq-gevent-worker