def threaded_prune_jobs(): """ Sometimes failure happens, but a Nommer doesn't handle said failure gracefully. Instead of state changing to ``ERROR``, it gets stuck in some un-finished state in the SimpleDB_ domain defined in :py:data:`SIMPLEDB_JOB_STATE_DOMAIN <media_nommer.conf.settings.SIMPLEDB_JOB_STATE_DOMAIN>` setting. This process finds jobs that haven't been updated in a very long time (a day or so) that are probably dead. It marks them with an ``ABANDONED`` state, letting us know something went really wrong. """ JobCache.abandon_stale_jobs() # Expire any newly abandoned jobs, too. Removes them from job cache. JobCache.uncache_finished_jobs()