app/django/core/management/commands/cleanup.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:44 +0000
changeset 2246 c29272f640b0
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work). Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

import datetime
from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand

class Command(NoArgsCommand):
    help = "Can be run as a cronjob or directly to clean out old data from the database (only expired sessions at the moment)."

    def handle_noargs(self, **options):
        from django.db import transaction
        from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
        Session.objects.filter(expire_date__lt=datetime.datetime.now()).delete()
        transaction.commit_unless_managed()