At the moment, I have a sidekiq job like this:
class SyncUser
include Sidekiq::Worker
def perform(user_id)
#do stuff
end
end
I am placing a job on the queue like this:
SyncUser.perform_async user.id
This all works of course but there is a bit of a lag between calling perform_async and the job actually getting executed.
Is there anything else I can do to tell sidekiq to execute the job immediately?
There are two questions here.
If you want to execute a job immediately, in the current context you can use:
SyncUser.new.perform(user.id)
If you want to decrease the delay between asynchronous work being scheduled and when it's executed in the sidekiq worker, you can decrease the poll_interval
setting:
Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
config.poll_interval = 2
end
The poll_interval
is the delay within worker backends of how frequently workers check for jobs on the queue. The average time between a job being scheduled and executed with a free worker will be poll_interval / 2
.