gearman(1)

Function name to use for jobs (can give many)

Job server host

Print this help menu

Gearman server port

Timeout in milliseconds

Create a pidfile for the process

In client mode run one job per line, in worker mode send data packet for each line

Same as -n, but strip off the newline

Enable SSL connections. Certificate paths are taken from the environment variables GEARMAND_CA_CERTIFICATE, GEARMAN_CLIENT_PEM, and GEARMAN_CLIENT_KEY environment variables or from the libgearman compile-time defaults.

Send an ECHO request to the job server and exit. No worker is required. Useful as a connectivity / health check. Exit status is 0 on success, non-zero on failure. When -t is omitted, a 2-second timeout is used. With -v, it prints ping OK on success.

Run jobs in the background

Run jobs as high priority

Run jobs as low priority

Job assignment priority is global across registered functions: a high priority job for any function is assigned before normal or low priority jobs for other functions.

Prefix all output lines with functions names

Send job without reading from standard input

Unique key to use for job

Number of jobs for worker to run before exiting

Run in worker mode