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       (retry-request? (lambda (request)
			 #f))
       ;; send the data and get the response
       ;; extract the needed info from the http data and 
       ;; process and return it.
       (let* ((send-recieve (lambda ()
			      (mutex-lock! *http-mutex*)
			      ;; (condition-case (with-input-from-request "http://localhost"; #f read-lines)
			      ;;					       ((exn http client-error) e (print e)))
			      (set! res (with-input-from-request ;; was dat
					 fullurl 
					 (list (cons 'key "thekey")
					       (cons 'cmd cmd)
					       (cons 'params params))
					 read-string))
			      ;; Shouldn't this be a call to the managed call-all-connections stuff above?

	(debug:print 0 "SYNC: time= " sync-time ", rem-time=" rem-time)

      ;;
      ;; set_running after our first pass through and start the db
      ;;
      (if (eq? server-state 'available)
	  (begin
	    (tasks:server-set-state! tdb server-id "dbprep")
	    (thread-sleep! 5) ;; give some margin for queries to complete before switching from file based access to server based access
	    (set! *inmemdb*  (db:setup run-id))
	    (tasks:server-set-state! tdb server-id "running")))

      (if (and (<= rem-time 4)
	       (> rem-time 0))
	  (thread-sleep! rem-time)
	  (thread-sleep! 4))) ;; fallback for if the math is changed ...

				;; bypass starting the server. 
				;;
				;; NB// can cache the answer for server running for 10 seconds ...
				;;
				(if (and (not (rmt:write-frequency-over-limit? cmd run-id))
					 (not (open-run-close tasks:server-running-or-starting? tasks:open-db run-id)))
				    #f
				    (let loop ((numtries 2))
				      (let ((res (client:setup run-id)))
					(if res 
					    (hash-table-ref/default *runremote* run-id #f) ;; client:setup filled this in (hopefully)
					    (if (> numtries 0)
						(begin
						  ;; junk records can cause stuckness here. use this time to
						  ;; clean out
						  (open-run-close tasks:server-clean-out-old-records-for-run-id tasks:open-db run-id "auto-start-clean-up")
						  (thread-sleep! 1)
						  (loop (- numtries 1)))
						#f) ;; try couple times to start server - give up and do local queries

					    )))))))
	 (jparams         (db:obj->string params)))
    (if connection-info
	(let ((res             (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id connection-info cmd jparams)))
	  (if res
	      (db:string->obj res)
	      (let ((new-connection-info (client:setup run-id)))
		(debug:print 0 "WARNING: Communication failed, trying call to http-transport:client-api-send-receive again.")

     (lambda (num-running)
       (set! res num-running))
     mdb
     "SELECT count(id) FROM servers WHERE run_id != 0 AND state = 'running';")
    res))

(define (tasks:server-clean-out-old-records-for-run-id mdb run-id tag)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE state in ('available','dbprep','shutting-down') AND (strftime('%s','now') - start_time) > 50 AND run_id=?;"
		   (conc "defunct" tag) run-id))

(define (tasks:server-force-clean-running-records-for-run-id mdb run-id tag)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE state = 'running' AND run_id=?;"
		   (conc "defunct" tag) run-id))

(define (tasks:server-force-clean-run-record mdb run-id iface port tag)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE state = 'running' AND run_id=? AND interface=? AND port=?;"
		   (conc "defunct" tag) run-id iface port))

(define (tasks:server-delete-records-for-this-pid mdb tag)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE hostname=? AND pid=?;"
		   (conc "defunct" tag) (get-host-name) (current-process-id)))

(define (tasks:server-delete-record mdb server-id tag) 
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE id=?;"
		   (conc "defunct" tag) server-id)
  ;; use this opportuntity to clean out records over one month old or over 10 minutes old with port = -1 (i.e. a never used placeholder)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "DELETE FROM servers WHERE state not in ('running','shutting-down','dbprep') AND (strftime('%s','now') - start_time) > 2628000;")
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "DELETE FROM servers WHERE state like 'defunct%' AND port=-1 AND (strftime('%s','now') - start_time) > 600;")
  )

(define (tasks:server-set-state! mdb server-id state)
  (sqlite3:execute mdb "UPDATE servers SET state=?,heartbeat=strftime('%s','now') WHERE id=?;" state server-id))

(define (tasks:server-set-interface-port mdb server-id interface port)

   (let* ((header (list "id" "hostname" "pid" "interface" "port" "pubport" "state" "run_id" "priority" "start_time"))
	  (selstr (string-intersperse header ","))
	  (res    '()))
    (sqlite3:for-each-row
     (lambda (a . b)
       (set! res (cons (apply vector a b) res)))
     mdb
     (conc "SELECT " selstr " FROM servers WHERE run_id=? AND state in ('available','running','dbprep') ORDER BY start_time DESC;")
     run-id)
    (vector header res)))

(define (tasks:get-server mdb run-id)
  (let ((res  #f)
	(best #f))
    (sqlite3:for-each-row

    res))

(define (tasks:server-running-or-starting? mdb run-id)
  (let ((res #f))
    (sqlite3:for-each-row
     (lambda (id)
       (set! res id))
     mdb ;; NEEDS dbprep ADDED
     "SELECT id FROM servers WHERE run_id=? AND (state = 'running' OR (state = 'dbprep' AND  (strftime('%s','now') - start_time) < 60));" run-id)
    res))

(define (tasks:get-all-servers mdb)
  (let ((res '()))
    (sqlite3:for-each-row
     (lambda (id pid hostname interface port pubport start-time priority state mt-version last-update transport run-id)
       ;;                       0   1        2         3    4       5          6        7     8          9          10        11     12

	    (if (equal? hostname (get-host-name))
		(begin
		  (debug:print-info 1 "Sending signal/term to " pid " on " hostname)
		  (process-signal pid signal/term)  ;; local machine, send sig term
		  (thread-sleep! 5)                 ;; give it five seconds to die peacefully then do a brutal kill
		  (process-signal pid signal/kill)) 
		(debug:print 0 "WARNING: Can't kill frozen server on remote host " hostname))))))


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;; Tasks and Task monitors
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