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[beagle.git] / Util / Scheduler.cs

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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

namespace Beagle.Util {

        public class Scheduler {

                // Fire an event if there are no tasks left to execute.
                public delegate void EmptyQueueDelegate ();
                public event EmptyQueueDelegate EmptyQueueEvent;

                static public bool Debug = false;

                public enum Priority {

                        Shutdown    = 0, // Do it on shutdown 

                        Idle        = 1, // Execute only when the whole machine is idle
                                         // Probably should be reserved for computationally-expensive stuff
                                         // FIXME: These are not properly scheduled right now

                        Maintenance = 2, // Only execute when there are no lower-priority
                                         // tasks from the same source to execute instead

                        Delayed     = 3, // Do it soon

                        Immediate   = 4, // Do it right now
                }

                public delegate void Hook ();
                public delegate void TaskHook (Task task);

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                public abstract class Task : IComparable {

                        private string tag = null;
                        private Priority priority = Priority.Delayed;
                        private int sub_priority = 0;
                        private DateTime trigger_time = DateTime.MinValue;
                        private DateTime timestamp; // when added to the scheduler

                        // Some metadata
                        public string Creator;
                        public string Description;

                        public object Source = null; // this is just an opaque identifier

                        public ITaskCollector Collector = null;
                        public double Weight = 1.0;

                        public bool Reschedule = false;

                        private ArrayList task_groups = null;
                        private TaskGroupPrivate child_task_group = null;

                        ///////////////////////////////


                        // The tag is the task's unique identifier
                        public string Tag {

                                get { return tag; }

                                set {
                                        // Don't allow us to change the tag of a scheduled task
                                        if (tag == null || scheduler == null)
                                                tag = value;
                                        else
                                                throw new Exception ("Can't change tag of " + tag + "!");
                                }
                        }

                        public Priority Priority {

                                get { return priority; }

                                set { 
                                        if (priority != value) {
                                                priority = value;
                                                Recompute ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        public int SubPriority {

                                get { return sub_priority; }

                                set {
                                        if (sub_priority != value) {
                                                sub_priority = value;
                                                Recompute ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        public DateTime TriggerTime {

                                get { return trigger_time; }

                                set {
                                        if (trigger_time != value) {
                                                trigger_time = value;
                                                Recompute ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        public DateTime Timestamp {
                                get { return timestamp; }
                        }
                        
                        ///////////////////////////////

                        public void AddTaskGroup (TaskGroup group)
                        {
                                if (task_groups == null)
                                        task_groups = new ArrayList ();
                                task_groups.Add (group);
                        }

                        private void IncrementAllTaskGroups ()
                        {
                                if (task_groups != null) {
                                        foreach (TaskGroupPrivate group in task_groups) {
                                                if (! group.Finished)
                                                        group.Increment ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        private void DecrementAllTaskGroups ()
                        {
                                if (task_groups != null) {
                                        foreach (TaskGroupPrivate group in task_groups) {
                                                if (! group.Finished)
                                                        group.Decrement ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        private void TouchAllTaskGroups ()
                        {
                                if (task_groups != null) {
                                        foreach (TaskGroupPrivate group in task_groups) {
                                                if (! group.Finished)
                                                        group.Touch ();
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////

                        private Scheduler scheduler = null;

                        public void Schedule (Scheduler scheduler)
                        {
                                // Increment the task groups the first
                                // time a task is scheduled.
                                if (this.scheduler == null)
                                        IncrementAllTaskGroups ();
                                this.timestamp = DateTime.Now;
                                this.scheduler = scheduler;
                                this.cancelled = false;
                        }

                        private void Recompute ()
                        {
                                if (scheduler != null)
                                        scheduler.Recompute ();
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////

                        // A blocked task will not execute.
                        public bool Blocked {
                                get {
                                        // Block the task if we have unexecuted children
                                        return child_task_group != null && ! child_task_group.Finished;
                                }
                        }
                        
                        ///////////////////////////////

                        private bool cancelled = false;

                        public bool Cancelled {
                                get { return cancelled; }
                        }

                        public void Cancel ()
                        {
                                if (! cancelled) {
                                        DecrementAllTaskGroups ();
                                        Cleanup (); // clean up after cancelled tasks
                                }
                                cancelled = true;
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////

                        // The Task's count keeps track of how many
                        // times it has been executed.

                        private int count = 0;
                        
                        public int Count {
                                get { return count; }
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////
                        
                        public void SpawnChild (Task child_task)
                        {
                                if (child_task_group == null)
                                        child_task_group = new TaskGroupPrivate ("Children of " + Tag, null, null);
                                child_task.AddTaskGroup (child_task_group);
                                child_task.Source = this.Source;
                                scheduler.Add (child_task);
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////
                        
                        public void DoTask ()
                        {
                                if (! cancelled) {
                                        if (Debug)
                                                Logger.Log.Debug ("Starting task {0}", Tag);
                                        child_task_group = null;
                                        Reschedule = false;
                                        TouchAllTaskGroups ();

                                        Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch ();
                                        sw.Start ();
                                                
                                        try {
                                                DoTaskReal ();
                                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                                                Logger.Log.Warn ("Caught exception in DoTaskReal");
                                                Logger.Log.Warn ("        Tag: {0}", Tag);
                                                Logger.Log.Warn ("    Creator: {0}", Creator);
                                                Logger.Log.Warn ("Description: {0}", Description);
                                                Logger.Log.Warn ("   Priority: {0} ({1})", Priority, SubPriority);
                                                Logger.Log.Warn (ex);
                                        }
                                        sw.Stop ();
                                        if (Debug)
                                                Logger.Log.Debug ("Finished task {0} in {1}", Tag, sw);

                                        if (Reschedule) {
                                                ++count;
                                                scheduler.Add (this); // re-add ourselves
                                        } else {
                                                DecrementAllTaskGroups ();
                                                scheduler = null;
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        protected abstract void DoTaskReal ();

                        ///////////////////////////////

                        // Clean-up is called whenever we know that a task will never
                        // be executed.  It is never called on tasks for who DoTaskReal
                        // has been called (except when rescheduled).  Cleanup is also
                        // called when a task is cancelled.

                        public void Cleanup ()
                        {
                                try {
                                        DoCleanup ();
                                } catch (Exception ex) {
                                        Logger.Log.Warn ("Caught exception cleaning up task '{0}'", Tag);
                                        Logger.Log.Warn (ex);
                                }
                        }

                        protected virtual void DoCleanup ()
                        {
                                // Do nothing by default
                        }

                        ///////////////////////////////

                        // Sort from lowest to highest priority
                        // FIXME: This does not define a total ordering
                        // on the set of all tasks, so use it with care.
                        public int CompareTo (object obj)
                        {
                                Task other = obj as Task;
                                if (other == null)
                                        return 1;

                                Priority this_priority;
                                Priority other_priority;

                                this_priority = this.Priority;
                                other_priority = other.Priority;

                                // To other sources, Maintenance tasks looks like
                                // Delayed tasks.
                                if (this.Source != other.Source) {
                                        if (this_priority == Priority.Maintenance)
                                                this_priority = Priority.Delayed;
                                        if (other_priority == Priority.Maintenance)
                                                other_priority = Priority.Delayed;
                                } 
                                
                                int cmp;
                                cmp = (int)this_priority - (int)other_priority;
                                if (cmp != 0)
                                        return cmp;
                                
                                cmp = this.SubPriority - other.SubPriority;
                                if (cmp != 0)
                                        return cmp;

                                // Tasks that were added to the scheduler earlier take
                                // precedence over those that were added later.
                                cmp = DateTime.Compare (other.Timestamp, this.Timestamp);
                                if (cmp != 0)
                                        return cmp;
                                
                                // Try to break any ties
                                return this.GetHashCode () - other.GetHashCode ();
                        }

                        public void AppendToStringBuilder (StringBuilder sb)
                        {
                                sb.Append (Priority).Append (' ').Append (SubPriority);
                                sb.Append (" (").Append (Timestamp).Append (")\n");
                                        
                                sb.Append (Tag).Append ('\n');

                                double t = (TriggerTime - DateTime.Now).TotalSeconds;
                                if (t > 0) {
                                        if (t < 120)
                                                sb.AppendFormat ("Hold for {0:0.00} seconds\n", t);
                                        else {
                                                sb.Append ("Hold until ").Append (TriggerTime);
                                                sb.Append ('\n');
                                        }
                                }

                                if (Creator != null)
                                        sb.Append ("Creator: ").Append (Creator).Append ('\n');

                                if (Description != null)
                                        sb.Append (Description).Append ('\n');
                        }
                }

                private class TaskHookWrapper : Task {

                        TaskHook hook;
                        
                        public TaskHookWrapper (TaskHook hook) 
                        {
                                this.hook = hook;
                        }

                        protected override void DoTaskReal ()
                        {
                                if (hook != null)
                                        hook (this);
                        }
                }

                public static Task TaskFromHook (TaskHook hook)
                {
                        return new TaskHookWrapper (hook);
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                //
                // Task Groups
                //

                public static TaskGroup NewTaskGroup (string name, Hook pre_hook, Hook post_hook)
                {
                        return new TaskGroupPrivate (name, pre_hook, post_hook);
                }

                // The TaskGroup we hand back to the user is an interface that
                // exposes minimal functionality.
                public interface TaskGroup {
                        string Name { get; }
                        bool Finished { get; }
                }

                private class TaskGroupPrivate : TaskGroup {
                        private string name;
                        private int task_count = 0;
                        private bool touched = false;
                        private bool finished = false;
                        private Hook pre_hook;
                        private Hook post_hook;

                        public TaskGroupPrivate (string name,
                                                 Hook   pre_hook,
                                                 Hook   post_hook)
                        {
                                this.name = name;
                                this.pre_hook = pre_hook;
                                this.post_hook = post_hook;
                        }

                        public string Name {
                                get { return name; }
                        }

                        public bool Finished {
                                get { return finished; }
                        }

                        // Call this when a task is added to the task group.
                        public void Increment ()
                        {
                                if (finished)
                                        throw new Exception ("Tried to increment a finished TaskGroup");
                                ++task_count;
                        }

                        // Call this when we execute a task in the task group.
                        public void Touch ()
                        {
                                if (finished)
                                        throw new Exception ("Tried to touch a finished TaskGroup");

                                if (! touched) {
                                        if (pre_hook != null) {
                                                try {
                                                        pre_hook ();
                                                } catch (Exception ex) {
                                                        Logger.Log.Warn ("Caught exception in pre_hook of task group '{0}'", Name);
                                                        Logger.Log.Warn (ex);
                                                }
                                        }
                                        touched = true;
                                }
                        }

                        // Call this after a task in the task group is complete.
                        public void Decrement ()
                        {
                                if (finished)
                                        throw new Exception ("Tried to decrement a finished TaskGroup");

                                --task_count;
                                // Only fire our post-hook if the pre-hook fired
                                // (or would have fired, had it been non-null)
                                if (task_count == 0 && touched) {
                                        if (post_hook != null) {
                                                try {
                                                        post_hook ();
                                                } catch (Exception ex) {
                                                        Logger.Log.Warn ("Caught exception in post_hook of task group '{0}'", Name);
                                                        Logger.Log.Warn (ex);
                                                }
                                        }
                                        finished = true;
                                }
                        }
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                //
                // Task Collector
                //
                // This is a mechanism for executing tasks in sets, possibly outside of
                // priority order.
                //

                public interface ITaskCollector {

                        double GetMaximumWeight ();

                        void PreTaskHook ();
                        void PostTaskHook ();
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                static private double global_delay = -1.0;

                static Scheduler ()
                {
                        string exercise;
                        exercise = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable ("BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG");

                        if (exercise != null) {
                                if (exercise.Length > 2 && exercise [0] == 't')
                                        global_delay = Double.Parse (exercise.Substring (1));
                                else
                                        global_delay = 0.0;
                        }
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                static private Scheduler global = new Scheduler ();

                static public Scheduler Global {
                        get { return global; }
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                private object big_lock = new object ();

                // FIXME: shutdown tasks should probably be ordered by something
                private Queue shutdown_task_queue = new Queue ();

                private Hashtable tasks_by_tag = new Hashtable ();
                private int total_executed_task_count = 0;
                
                public void Add (Task task)
                {
                        if (task == null)
                                return;

                        if (task.Source == null)
                                throw new Exception ("Attempting to add Task with no source!");

                        Task old_task = null;

                        lock (big_lock) {
                                
                                // Keep track of when immediate priority tasks are
                                // added so that we can throttle if the scheduler
                                // is being slammed with them.
                                if (task.Priority == Priority.Immediate) {
                                        // Shift our times down by one
                                        Array.Copy (last_immediate_times, 1, last_immediate_times, 0, 4);
                                        last_immediate_times [4] = DateTime.Now;
                                }
                                
                                old_task = tasks_by_tag [task.Tag] as Task;

                                task.Schedule (this);

                                // Re-adding the same task is basically a no-op --- we
                                // just update the timestamp and return.
                                if (old_task == task)
                                        return;

                                if (Debug) {
                                        Logger.Log.Debug ("Adding task");
                                        Logger.Log.Debug ("Tag: {0}", task.Tag);
                                        if (task.Description != null)
                                                Logger.Log.Debug ("Desc: {0}", task.Description);
                                }

                                if (task.Priority == Priority.Shutdown)
                                        shutdown_task_queue.Enqueue (task);
                                else
                                        tasks_by_tag [task.Tag] = task;
                                
                                Monitor.Pulse (big_lock);
                        }

                        // If we clobbered another task, call cancel on it.
                        // This happens after we release the lock, since
                        // cancellation could result in a task group post-hook
                        // being run.
                        if (old_task != null)
                                old_task.Cancel ();
                }

                public Task GetByTag (string tag)
                {
                        lock (big_lock)
                                return tasks_by_tag [tag] as Task;
                }

                public bool ContainsByTag (string tag)
                {
                        Task task = GetByTag (tag);
                        return task != null && !task.Cancelled;
                }

                public void Recompute ()
                {
                        lock (big_lock)
                                Monitor.Pulse (big_lock);
                }

                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                Thread thread = null;
                public bool running = false;

                public void Start ()
                {
                        lock (this) {
                                if (thread != null)
                                        return;
                                running = true;
                                thread = ExceptionHandlingThread.Start (new ThreadStart (Worker));
                        }
                }

                public void Stop ()
                {
                        lock (big_lock) {
                                if (running) {
                                        running = false;
                                        Monitor.Pulse (big_lock);
                                }
                        }
                }

                //
                // Delay Computations
                //
                // This code controls how we space out tasks
                //

                // FIXME: random magic constants
                const double idle_threshold              = 5.314159 * 60; // probably should be longer
                const double idle_ramp_up_time           = 5.271828 * 60; // probably should be longer
                const double default_delayed_rate_factor =  9.03;         // work about 1/10th of the time
                const double default_idle_rate_factor    = 2.097;         // work about 1/3rd of the time
                const double maximum_delay               = 20;            // never wait for more than 20s
                const double min_throttled_delay         = 1.5;           // never wait less than this when throttled
                const double min_overloaded_delay        = 2.2;           // never wait less than this when there are many tasks
                const int    task_overload_threshold     = 60;            // number of tasks to process before delaying

                DateTime[] last_immediate_times = new DateTime [5];

                // The return value and duration_of_previous_task are both measured in seconds.
                private double ComputeDelay (Priority priority_of_next_task,
                                             double   duration_of_previous_task,
                                             int      executed_task_count)
                {
                        if (global_delay >= 0.0)
                                return global_delay;

                        double rate_factor;
                        
                        rate_factor = 2.0;

                        // Do everything faster the longer we are idle.
                        double idle_time = SystemInformation.InputIdleTime;
                        double idle_scale = 1.0;
                        bool is_idle = false;
                        bool need_throttle = false;

                        // Never speed up if we are using the battery.
                        if (idle_time > idle_threshold && ! SystemInformation.UsingBattery) {
                                is_idle = true;
                                double t = (idle_time - idle_threshold) / idle_ramp_up_time;                                 
                                idle_scale = (1 - Math.Min (t, 1.0));
                        } 

                        switch (priority_of_next_task) {
                                
                        case Priority.Immediate:
                                rate_factor = 0;

                                if (last_immediate_times [0] != DateTime.MinValue) {
                                        TimeSpan last_add_delta = DateTime.Now.Subtract (last_immediate_times [4]);

                                        // If less than a second has gone by since the
                                        // last immediate task was added, there is
                                        // still a torrent of events coming in, and we
                                        // may need to throttle.
                                        if (last_add_delta.TotalSeconds <= 1) {
                                                TimeSpan between_add_delta = last_immediate_times [4].Subtract (last_immediate_times [0]);

                                                // At least 5 immediate tasks have been
                                                // added in the last second.  We
                                                // definitely need to throttle.
                                                if (between_add_delta.TotalSeconds <= 1) {
                                                        need_throttle = true;
                                                        rate_factor = idle_scale * default_idle_rate_factor;
                                                }
                                        }
                                }

                                // If we've processed many tasks since the last
                                // time we took a break, ignore the priority and set a
                                // delay equivalent to Priority.Delayed.
                                if (!is_idle && executed_task_count >= task_overload_threshold)
                                        rate_factor = idle_scale * default_delayed_rate_factor;
                                
                                break;

                        case Priority.Delayed:
                                rate_factor = idle_scale * default_delayed_rate_factor;
                                break;

                        case Priority.Idle:
                                rate_factor = idle_scale * default_idle_rate_factor;
                                break;
                        }


                        // FIXME: we should do something more sophisticated than this
                        // with the load average.
                        // Random numbers galore!
                        double load_average = SystemInformation.LoadAverageOneMinute;
                        if (load_average > 3.001)
                                rate_factor *= 5.002;
                        else if (load_average > 1.5003)
                                rate_factor *= 2.004;

                        double delay = rate_factor * duration_of_previous_task;

                        // space out delayed tasks a bit when we aren't idle
                        if (! is_idle
                            && priority_of_next_task == Priority.Delayed
                            && delay < 0.5)
                                delay = 0.5;

                        if (delay > maximum_delay)
                                delay = maximum_delay;

                        // If we need to throttle, make sure we don't delay less than
                        // a second and some.
                        if (need_throttle && delay < min_throttled_delay)
                                delay = min_throttled_delay;

                        // If we're not idle and we've just processed more
                        // than a certain number of events, take a break.
                        if (! is_idle
                            && executed_task_count >= task_overload_threshold
                            && delay < min_overloaded_delay)
                                delay = min_overloaded_delay;

                        return delay;
                }

                //
                // The main loop
                //

                // A convenience function.  There should be a 
                // constructor to TimeSpan that does this.
                private static TimeSpan TimeSpanFromSeconds (double t)
                {
                        // Wait barfs if you hand it a negative TimeSpan,
                        // so we are paranoid;
                        if (t < 0.001)
                                t = 0;

                        // 1 tick = 100 nanoseconds
                        long ticks = (long) (t * 1.0e+7);
                        return new TimeSpan (ticks);
                }

                private string status_str = null;

                private void Worker ()
                {
                        DateTime end_time_of_previous_task = DateTime.MinValue;
                        double duration_of_previous_task = 0.0;

                        Hook pre_hook = null;
                        Hook post_hook = null;
                        ArrayList to_be_executed = new ArrayList ();
                        Hashtable max_priority_by_source = new Hashtable ();
                        int executed_task_count = 0;
                        StringBuilder status_builder = new StringBuilder ();

                        while (running) {

                                status_str = "Finding next task to execute";

                                lock (big_lock) {

                                        // If there are no pending tasks, wait
                                        // on our lock and then re-start our
                                        // while loop
                                        if (tasks_by_tag.Count == 0) {
                                                if (EmptyQueueEvent != null)
                                                        EmptyQueueEvent ();
                                                status_str = "Waiting on empty queue";
                                                Monitor.Wait (big_lock);
                                                executed_task_count = 0;
                                                continue;
                                        }

                                        // Walk across our list of tasks and find
                                        // the next one to execute.
                                        DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
                                        DateTime next_trigger_time = DateTime.MaxValue;

                                        // Make a first pass over our tasks, finding the
                                        // highest-priority item per source.
                                        max_priority_by_source.Clear ();
                                        foreach (Task task in tasks_by_tag.Values) {
                                                if (task.Blocked || task.TriggerTime >= now)
                                                        continue;
                                                if (max_priority_by_source.Contains (task.Source)) {
                                                        Priority p = (Priority) max_priority_by_source [task.Source];
                                                        if (p < task.Priority)
                                                                max_priority_by_source [task.Source] = task.Priority;
                                                } else {
                                                        max_priority_by_source [task.Source] = task.Priority;
                                                }
                                        }
                                        
                                        // Now make a second pass over the tasks and find
                                        // the highest-priority item.  We use the information
                                        // from the first pass to correctly prioritize maintenance tasks.
                                        Task next_task = null;
                                        foreach (Task task in tasks_by_tag.Values) {
                                                if (task.Blocked)
                                                        continue;
                                                if (task.TriggerTime >= now) {
                                                        if (task.TriggerTime < next_trigger_time)
                                                                next_trigger_time = task.TriggerTime;
                                                        continue;
                                                }
                                                
                                                // If this is a maintenance task and there is a high-priority
                                                // task from the same source, skip it.
                                                if (task.Priority == Priority.Maintenance) {
                                                        Priority p = (Priority) max_priority_by_source [task.Source];
                                                        if (p > task.Priority)
                                                                continue;
                                                }

                                                if (task.TriggerTime < now) {
                                                        if (next_task == null || next_task.CompareTo (task) < 0)
                                                                next_task = task;
                                                }
                                        }

                                        // If we didn't find a task, wait for the next trigger-time
                                        // and then re-start our while loop.
                                        if (next_task == null) {
                                                if (next_trigger_time == DateTime.MaxValue) {
                                                        status_str = "Waiting for an unblocked task";
                                                        Monitor.Wait (big_lock);
                                                } else {
                                                        status_str = "Waiting for the next trigger time";
                                                        Monitor.Wait (big_lock, next_trigger_time - now);
                                                }
                                                executed_task_count = 0;
                                                continue;
                                        }

                                        // If we did find a task, do we want to execute it right now?
                                        // Or should we wait a bit?

                                        // How should we space things out?
                                        double delay = 0;
                                        delay = ComputeDelay (next_task.Priority, duration_of_previous_task, executed_task_count);
                                        delay = Math.Min (delay, (next_trigger_time - now).TotalSeconds);

                                        // Adjust by the time that has actually elapsed since the
                                        // last task.
                                        delay -= (now - end_time_of_previous_task).TotalSeconds;

                                        // If we still need to wait a bit longer, wait for the appropriate
                                        // amount of time and then re-start our while loop.
                                        if (delay > 0.001) {
                                                status_str = "Waiting for next task.";
                                                Monitor.Wait (big_lock, TimeSpanFromSeconds (delay));
                                                executed_task_count = 0;
                                                continue;
                                        }

                                        //
                                        // If we've made it to this point, it is time to start
                                        // executing our selected task.
                                        //

                                        to_be_executed.Clear ();

                                        if (next_task.Collector == null) {

                                                        to_be_executed.Add (next_task);

                                        } else {

                                                pre_hook = new Hook (next_task.Collector.PreTaskHook);
                                                post_hook = new Hook (next_task.Collector.PostTaskHook);

                                                // Find all eligible tasks with the same collector,
                                                // and add them to the collection list.
                                                now = DateTime.Now;
                                                foreach (Task task in tasks_by_tag.Values)
                                                        if (task != next_task
                                                            && task.Collector == next_task.Collector
                                                            && !task.Blocked
                                                            && task.TriggerTime < now)
                                                                to_be_executed.Add (task);

                                                // Order the tasks from highest to lowest priority.
                                                // Our original task will always be the first item
                                                // in the resulting array.
                                                to_be_executed.Sort ();
                                                to_be_executed.Add (next_task);
                                                to_be_executed.Reverse ();

                                                // Now find how many tasks can be executed before we
                                                // exceed the collector's maximum weight.  If necessary,
                                                // prune the list of tasks.
                                                double remaining_weight;
                                                remaining_weight = next_task.Collector.GetMaximumWeight ();
                                                int i = 0;
                                                while (i < to_be_executed.Count && remaining_weight > 0) {
                                                        Task task;
                                                        task = to_be_executed [i] as Task;
                                                        remaining_weight -= task.Weight;
                                                        ++i;
                                                }
                                                if (i < to_be_executed.Count)
                                                        to_be_executed.RemoveRange (i, to_be_executed.Count - i);
                                        }

                                        // Remove the tasks we are about to execute from our 
                                        // master list.
                                        foreach (Task task in to_be_executed)
                                                tasks_by_tag.Remove (task.Tag);

                                        // Pulse our lock, in case anyone is waiting for it.
                                        Monitor.Pulse (big_lock);
                                }

                                // Now actually execute the set of tasks we found.

                                status_builder.Length = 0;
                                status_builder.Append ("Executing task");
                                if (to_be_executed.Count > 1)
                                        status_builder.Append ('s');
                                status_builder.Append ('\n');
                                foreach (Task task in to_be_executed) {
                                        task.AppendToStringBuilder (status_builder);
                                        status_builder.Append ('\n');
                                }
                                status_str = status_builder.ToString ();

                                DateTime start_time = DateTime.Now;
                                if (pre_hook != null) {
                                        try {
                                                pre_hook ();
                                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                                                Logger.Log.Error ("Caught exception in pre_hook '{0}'", pre_hook);
                                                Logger.Log.Error (ex);
                                        }
                                }
                                foreach (Task task in to_be_executed) {
                                        task.DoTask ();
                                        ++total_executed_task_count;
                                        ++executed_task_count;
                                }
                                if (post_hook != null) {
                                        try {
                                                post_hook ();
                                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                                                Logger.Log.Error ("Caught exception in post_hook '{0}'", post_hook);
                                                Logger.Log.Error (ex);
                                        }
                                }

                                end_time_of_previous_task = DateTime.Now;
                                duration_of_previous_task = (end_time_of_previous_task - start_time).TotalSeconds;
                        }

                        // Execute all shutdown tasks
                        foreach (Task task in shutdown_task_queue)
                                if (! task.Cancelled && ! task.Blocked)
                                        task.DoTask ();

                        // Call Cleanup on all of our unexecuted tasks
                        foreach (Task task in tasks_by_tag.Values)
                                task.Cleanup ();

                        if (Debug)
                                Logger.Log.Debug ("Scheduler.Worker finished");
                }
                
                //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

                public string GetHumanReadableStatus ()
                {
                        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ();

                        lock (big_lock) {
                                
                                ArrayList blocked_tasks = new ArrayList ();
                                ArrayList future_tasks = new ArrayList ();
                                ArrayList pending_tasks = new ArrayList ();

                                DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
                                foreach (Task task in tasks_by_tag.Values) {
                                        if (task.Blocked)
                                                blocked_tasks.Add (task);
                                        else if (task.TriggerTime > now)
                                                future_tasks.Add (task);
                                        else
                                                pending_tasks.Add (task);
                                }

                                blocked_tasks.Sort ();
                                blocked_tasks.Reverse ();
                                
                                future_tasks.Sort ();
                                future_tasks.Reverse ();

                                pending_tasks.Sort ();
                                pending_tasks.Reverse ();

                                sb.Append ("Scheduler:\n");
                                sb.Append ("Count: ").Append (total_executed_task_count);
                                sb.Append ('\n');

                                if (status_str != null)
                                        sb.Append ("Status: ").Append (status_str).Append ('\n');

                                int pos = 1;
                                sb.Append ("\nPending Tasks:\n");
                                foreach (Task task in pending_tasks) {
                                        sb.Append (pos).Append (' ');
                                        task.AppendToStringBuilder (sb);
                                        sb.Append ('\n');
                                        ++pos;
                                }
                                if (pos == 1)
                                        sb.Append ("Scheduler queue is empty.\n");


                                if (future_tasks.Count > 0) {
                                        sb.Append ("\nFuture Tasks:\n");
                                        foreach (Task task in future_tasks) {
                                                task.AppendToStringBuilder (sb);
                                                sb.Append ('\n');
                                        }
                                }

                                if (blocked_tasks.Count > 0) {
                                        sb.Append ("\nBlocked Tasks:\n");
                                        foreach (Task task in blocked_tasks) {
                                                task.AppendToStringBuilder (sb);
                                                sb.Append ('\n');
                                        }
                                }
                        }

                        sb.Append ('\n');
                        return sb.ToString ();
                }
        }

#if false
        class TestTask : Scheduler.Task {

                private class TestCollector : Scheduler.ITaskCollector {
                        
                        public double GetMinimumWeight ()
                        {
                                return 0;
                        }

                        public double GetMaximumWeight ()
                        {
                                return 5;
                        }

                        public void PreTaskHook ()
                        {
                                Console.WriteLine ("+++ Pre-Task Hook");
                        }

                        public void PostTaskHook ()
                        {
                                Console.WriteLine ("+++ Post-Task Hook");
                        }
                }

                protected override void DoTaskReal ()
                {
                        Console.WriteLine ("Doing task '{0}' at {1}", Tag, DateTime.Now);
                        Thread.Sleep (200);
                        if (Tag == "Bar")
                                Reschedule = true;
                }

                static void BeginTaskGroup ()
                {
                        Console.WriteLine ("--- Begin Task Group!");
                }

                static void EndTaskGroup ()
                {
                        Console.WriteLine ("--- End Task Group!");
                }

                static void Main ()
                {
                        Scheduler sched = Scheduler.Global;

                        Scheduler.TaskGroup tg = Scheduler.NewTaskGroup ("foo",
                                                                         new Scheduler.Hook (BeginTaskGroup),
                                                                         new Scheduler.Hook (EndTaskGroup));

                        sched.Start ();

                        Scheduler.Task task;

                        task = new TestTask ();
                        task.Tag = "Foo";
                        task.AddTaskGroup (tg);
                        task.Priority = Scheduler.Priority.Delayed;
                        task.TriggerTime = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds (7);
                        sched.Add (task);

                        task = new TestTask ();
                        task.Tag = "Bar";                       
                        task.AddTaskGroup (tg);
                        task.Priority = Scheduler.Priority.Delayed;
                        sched.Add (task);

                        Scheduler.ITaskCollector collector = null;
                        for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i) {
                                if ((i % 10) == 0)
                                        collector = new TestCollector ();
                                task = new TestTask ();
                                task.Tag = String.Format ("Baboon {0}", i);
                                task.Collector = collector;
                                task.Priority = Scheduler.Priority.Delayed;
                                sched.Add (task);
                        }

                        while (true) {
                                Thread.Sleep (1000);
                        }
                }
        }
#endif
}