Alternate worker culling strategy #2773
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Description
This PR adds support for an alternate worker culling strategy: instead of culling the workers at the end of the internal worker list (which in all likelihood are the most recently started workers), setting the new
worker_culling_strategy
configuration option tooldest
will cull the workers which were started the longest time ago.This strategy makes it easier to implement a rolling restart of workers. This would be useful for us because our workers tend to leak memory over time. While of course the right thing to do would be write good code that does not leak memory :D in practice it's very hard and replacing workers every so often is a cheap and easy strategy.
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